For Teachers

Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Jacksonville: Flame International, 1981.

Borome, Joseph A. “The Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 92 (January 1968).

Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Free Black Community,       1720-1840.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Nash, Gary B. and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Slaughter, Thomas P. Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Stewart, James. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872.

Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2001.

Winch, Julie. Philadelphia’s Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for           Autonomy, 1787-1848. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

For Students:

Bentley, Juditih. "Dear Friend" Thomas Garrett & William Still, Collaborators on the Underground Railroad. New York: Cobblehill Books/Dutton, 1997.

Cary, Lorene. Free! Great Escapes from Slavery on theUnderground Railroad. New York: The New City Press, 2005.

Fradin, Dennis Brindell. Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves. New York: Clarion Books, 2000.

Hamilton, Virginia. Many thousands Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Haskins, Jim. Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Scholastic, 1993.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Under the Quilt of Night. New York: Atheneum Books, 2002.

Sisson, Mary Barr. The Gathering Storm, 1787-1829. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997.

Websites:

National Park Service “National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom”

Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia

National Geographic “The Underground Railroad”

PBS “Africans in America”

Explore PA History “Underground Railroad”

The Library Company of Philadelphia “The Liberation of Jane Johnson”

The Johnson House Underground Railroad Museum