1. Integrated Literacy Assignment Alissa Zeerip GLCE: 4-H3.0.7: Use case studies or stories to describe the ideas and actions of individuals involved in the Underground Railroad in Michigan and in the Great Lakes region. (8-U4.2.2; 8-U4.3.2) 8-U5.1.5: Describe the resistance of enslaved people (e.g., Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground RR, John Brown, Michigan’s role in the URR) and effects of their actions before and during the Civil War.

2. Trade Books -The Patchwork Path -Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad -Henry’s Freedom Box -Follow the Drinking Gourd

3. Poetry The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton Am I sadly cast aside, On misfortune's rugged tide? Will the world my pains deride Forever? Must I dwell in Slavery's night, And all pleasure take its flight, Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? Worst of all, must hope grow dim, And withhold her cheering beam? Rather let me sleep and dream Forever! Something still my heart surveys, Groping through this dreary maze; Is it Hope?--they burn and blaze Forever! Leave me not a wretch confined, Altogether lame and blind– Unto gross despair consigned, Forever! Heaven! in whom can I confide? Canst thou not for all provide? Condescend to be my guide Forever: And when this transient life shall end, Oh, may some kind, eternal friend Bid me from servitude ascend, Forever!

4. Poetry Continued The Slave Mother By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Heard you that shriek? It rose So wildly on the air, It seem’d as if a burden’d heart Was breaking in despair. Saw you those hands so sadly clasped— The bowed and feeble head— The shuddering of that fragile form— That look of grief and dread? Saw you the sad, imploring eye? Its every glance was pain, As if a storm of agony Were sweeping through the brain. She is a mother pale with fear, Her boy clings to her side, And in her kyrtle vainly tries His trembling form to hide. He is not hers, although she bore For him a mother’s pains; He is not hers, although her blood Is coursing through his veins! He is not hers, for cruel hands May rudely tear apart The only wreath of household love That binds her breaking heart. His love has been a joyous light That o’er her pathway smiled, A fountain gushing ever new, Amid life’s desert wild. His lightest word has been a tone Of music round her heart, Their lives a streamlet blent in one— Oh, Father! must they part? They tear him from her circling arms, Her last and fond embrace. Oh! never more may her sad eyes Gaze on his mournful face. No marvel, then, these bitter shrieks Disturb the listening air: She is a mother, and her heart Is breaking in despair.

5. Websites Michigan Department of Natural Resources- Underground Railroad Encyclopedia of Detroit Slavery, Resistance, and the URR in Michigan

6. Primary Sources Dr. Nathan Thomas House in Schoolcraft, MI Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio

7. Maps Routes that slave took using the Underground Railroad throughout the Great Lake Region.

8. Slavery and Freedom in Michigan 1787 The Northwest Ordinance prevents slavery in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. 1810 There are 24 Africans or African Americans enslaved in Detroit. 1833 Elizabeth Chandler, of Raisin Valley, creates the Michigan Anti-slavery Society. The Blackburn Affair is the first racial civil insurrection in Detroit's history and the Underground Railroad. 1846 The Crosswhite affair occurs. 1847 The Kentucky Slave Raid occurs in Vandalia. 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act makes it legal to capture African-Americans and return them to slavery. 1855 Michigan's personal Liberty Law directs prosecuting attorneys to defend anyone arrested as a fugitive slave. 1863 The Underground Railroad is no longer needed after the Emancipation Proclamation.

9. Songs/Music Wade in the Water Song from a Cotton Field- Bessie Brown

10. Photographs

11. Photos Continued

12. Citations Levine, E & Nelson, K. (2007). Henry’s Freedom Box, Scholastic. Stroud, B. (n.d.). The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom. N.p.: Scholastic. Martin, M. (2005). Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. N.p.: Capstone Press. Winter, J. (1988). Follow the Drinking Gourd. N.p.: Scholastic. Song from a Cotton Field by Bessie Brown retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxmbie8dfkI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxmbie8dfkI Slave Spiritual: Wade in the Water retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqMQfpNSes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqMQfpNSes The Underground Railroad (2013). In Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved February 21, 2014 Slavery, Resistance and the Underground Railroad in Michigan (2010). In Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved February 21, 2014 Underground Railroad (2014). In Detroit Historical Society. Retrieved February 21, 2014 Underground railroad house. Retrieved from http://www.villageofschoolcraft.com/php/history_highlights.php http://www.villageofschoolcraft.com/php/history_highlights.php

13. Citations Continued Horton, M. (1997). The Slave’s Complaint, Academy of American Poets Harper, F. (1993). The Slave Mother, Poetry Foundation Michigan Time Traveler (n.d.). In Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved February 21, 2014 Harriet Beecher Stowe House Retrieved from http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/oh1.htm