text: underground railroad!? i am doing an 8th grade paper on the underground railroad. tell me all you know!! thankies the underground railroad.   imagine you are a slave in the south in 1850. you work six long, hard days a week, toiling in the fields of your master; it seems very unlikely that you'll ever be freed. then, you hear from an old friend of yours who has escaped that he is now living in the north and wants you to join him in freedom. do you dare? if you are caught the punishment will be severe, but if not, you can live in freedom. who can you turn to for help?  http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.html  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ugrrhome.html  you are a slave.  your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s maryland. six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. you have never tasted freedom. you never expect to.  and yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. do you try it?   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/  __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  "the freedom centre is a treasure for all americans. it offers a rare and necessary opportunity to learn about this tragic but very real aspect of american history."  http://www.freedomcenter.org/  america's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. for each era, you'll find a historical narrative, a resource bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a teacher's guide for using the content of the web site and television series in u.s. history courses.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html  http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fdoug.html  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/listsome.php?category=african%20american%20history  http://www.afrolumens.org/  http://afrolumens.blogspot.com/  highly recommended  http://www.multcolib.org/homework/aframhc.html  http://cghs.dadeschools.net/slavery/index.html  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/listsome.php?category=african%20american%20history  good luck.  kev, liverpool, england