Compiled by Professor Thomas Costa, Professor of History, University of Virginia's College at Wise.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/runaways/allrecords.html

Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Keywords such as fugitive or run away yield dozens of personal accounts.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Description of Pierce Butler's St. Simon Island Plantation, where a mass exodus took place when runaways were invited to join British troops in the war of 1812.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2920.html

This site explores how Canada became the home of the first settlements of free blacks outside Africa. It includes a portal of links to information about Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, the Ethiopian Regiment, the Black Pioneers, personal accounts including narratives, documents such as Certificates of Freedom, and letters.

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/index.htm

This article provides a chart of black settlements in Spanish Florida from 1690-1850's. It outlines the events taking place such as the establishment of various settlements for fugitives, including Fort Mose (Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose), and the inhabitants' battles with the U.S. Army and proponents of slavery.

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213580/fortmose2.html?tqskip1=1

http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/services/magazine/01winter/mose.cfm

On the commemoration and historical background of Mary Ann Shadd

http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/page_attachments/Library/1/686081_Mary_Ann_Shadd_Cary_ENG.pdf

The National Geographic Underground Railroad website allows users to assume the role of a runaway, meet with Harriet Tubman, and travel several hundred miles to freedom. The ‘journey’ is presented in an interactive game.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

Focuses on protecting and insuring the accurate depiction of the historical events pertaining to the UGRR and Anti-Slavery Society. The Foundation educates the American citizens generally, and youth particularly, about the life of William Still, maintain an accurate archive to preserve the legacy of William Still, and use him as a role model for youth development. The site also has a resource guide with various links.

http://www.undergroundrr.com/foundation/about.htm

This site is a digital exhibition highlighting towns in Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Columbia, Christiana, and Solanco; and Canada (Buxton) integral to the Underground Railroad movement. Photos, maps and minimal text make up this site.

http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/tellingstories/demosite/index.html