Black History Month

Students will travel back to the year 1860 and follow a young slave as he flees a Kentucky plantation for Canada along the Underground Railroad. Along the way, they can read or listen to the runaway slave describe his terrifying journey from slavery to freedom.

• Click on "The Underground Railroad" to access directions on how to use this site with an interactive whiteboard
• Teacher's Guide
• Listen to the life of an excaping slave before the letter writing activity
• Secret letter - information to support a letter writing interactive activity
• Write a Letter Activity

Biographical links, routes, and an interactive "trip" on the underground railway. Check out the drop down menu for other interactive links. Well worth a visit!

• People Past and Present

Lesson plan with web links.

• Slavery Attacked in Upper Canada Search for slavery to view links.

• Enslavement - Websites
• Profiles
• Black Settlement in Canada
• Forgotten Stories
  • Websites
• Caribbean and African Immigration
  • Websites
• Equity and Human Rights
  • Websites
• Identiy and Assimilation
  • Websites
• Black Contributions
  • Websites
• The Arts
  • Websites
• Urban Centres
  • Websites
• Events in History
• Arts and Culture
• Timeline
• For Teachers
  
  • General Websites
  • Lesson Plans 

Use the menu on the left to navigate between an index of topics, an interactive game, and more.

Historical personalities and places

• Posters to order

Use the menu under the titles to access more valuable links.

• History
• Glossary of Underground Railway Terms
• Routes
• Songs
• Quilts
  • Quilt Codes
• Links

Scroll down the page for links to pictures of the site with explanations of this time in Ontario's history. Ontario history of the Blacks who settled here at the terminus of the Underground Railroad.

•  History of Josiah Henson

Links to personal narratives and primary source documents.
 

• Underground Railroad Routes- 1860 - Map

•  History

Use the left menu to read  biographies of black Canadians.

Search for slavery to view links.

Primary source documents. Early selttlment, Black Communities, Refugees.

• Map of the Underground Railroad ca. 1850s

Between 1783 and 1785, more than 3000 Black persons came to Nova Scotia as a direct result of the American Revolution.

• Teacher Resources

Lesson plans supbmitted by teachers. 

• Resource Bank Index
• Teacher's Guide
• Using Primary Source Documents

Audio clips sorted by names,titles, subjects, and geographic topics.

Slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project- 1936-1938. Links to primary source documents.

• Voices and faces of the collection

Biographies of accomplished African Americans who are artmakers, businessmakers, civicmakers, educationmakers, entertainmentmakers, lawmakers, mediamakers, medicalmakers, militarymakers, musicmakers, politicalmakers, religionmakers, sciencemakers, sportsmakers, stylemakers.

Biographies of Great Americans.

History of the Black Settlement in Nova Scotia.

Lessons and online information about the Underground Railway. The use of quilts as a secret code. 

Timelines, sports figures, scientists, inventors, and quizzes.

Level: Intermediate, Senior 

Links and maps of sites in the United States.

Worksheet and link to a reference page of African inventors and inventions.

Notable Black history dates of events and people.

• Becoming a Slave in Canada
  http://www.ecb.org/guides/pdf/africanslavetrade5.pdf
  Student activities on the history of slavery in Canada. - 11 page pdf file

• Parade of Programs - order information

Primary source documents of settlements of black settlement in Ontario.

• Elementary School Lesson Plans- Grade 6 Ontario Curriculum
  
  • The Practice of Slavery Lesson Plan

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt and The Secret to Freedom

• Lesson Plan

From scinetists and poets to educators and civil rights leaders, these African-American figures not only became prominent in their fields, but also influenced the hearts and minds of an entire nation. Explore the lives of these widely renowned African-American icons and their lasting impact on American history, through photos, timelines, and video.