Unit Plans
From Fugitive Slave to Freeman

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the Free Black Community

Highlighted Primary Sources in the Digital Library
Emancipation Proclamation
Come and Join Us Brothers
“Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?”
Remarks on the Slave Trade
William Still Portrait
The Underground Railroad

Journal C of Station No. 2 of the Underground Railroad

Selected Secondary Sources
The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Civil War
The Age of Emancipating Proclamations
Pensions for African Americans who Served or Fought for the Confederate States of American
Reconstructing the Life of a Colored Woman: The Pocket Diaries of Emilie F. Davis
Reconstructing Philadelphia: African American and Politics in the Post-Civil war North

Digital History Projects
The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers
Preserving American Freedom: Contradictions of Freedom in a New Nation
William Still