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Interpreting the Evidence

Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad

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  1. Load Simeon S. Jocelyn to William Bowne Parsons: Letter of Introduction for an Unknown Freedom-Seeker in Main Document Viewer
  2. Load Simeon S. Jocelyn to William Bowne Parsons: Letter of Introduction for an Unknown Freedom-Seeker in Main Document Viewer
  3. Load Simeon S. Jocelyn to William Bowne Parsons: Letter of Introduction for an Unknown Freedom-Seeker in Main Document Viewer

Suggested Teaching Instructions

4.5 IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM AND A CALL FOR CHANGE: Different groups of people did not have equal rights and freedoms. People worked to bring about change. The struggle for rights and freedoms was one factor in the division of the United States that resulted in the Civil War.
4.5a There were slaves in New York State. People worked to fight against slavery and for change.
Students will examine life as a slave in New York State.
Students will investigate people who took action to abolish slavery, including Samuel Cornish, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman.

 

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