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Note to teachers and students from Sharon M. Draper about Resources:
“ I did years of research to write this book, using hundreds of sources. There is no way I could include in the story all the information that I learned. If you'd like to learn more about this period in history, the list below contains not all, but some of the best sources that I found. The entries marked with an asterisk (**) are particularly appropriate for middle school.”

Books
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. 

**Currie, Stephen. Life of a Slave on a Southern Plantation. Lucent Books. 2000. 

Davidson, Basil. The African Slave Trade.Little Brown. 1961 

Deagan, Kathleen, and Darcie MacMahon. Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom.University Press of Florida. 1995. 

**Dean, Ruth. Life in the American Colonies. Lucent Books. 1999. 

Everett, Susanne. History of Slavery.Chartwell Books, 1996. 

Johnson, Charles, and Patricia Smith. Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery.The Companion Book to the PBS Series. Harcourt. 1998. 

**Kallen, Stuart. Life on the Underground Railroad. Lucent Books. 2000. 

Landers, Jane. Fort Mose. Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida. St. Augustine Historical Society. 1992. 

Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation.Crown Publishers, 1997. 

Websites:
The African/Atlantic Slave Trade
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives From the Federal Writers’ Project

 Chronology of the History of Slavery and Racism

 Daily Life:Housing, Hunger, Hardships and The Workday
Article on Lives of the Slaves in South Carolina

 The Underground Railroad
National Geographic Virtual Journey on The Underground Railroad