1. Freedom Roads: North Carolina’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

2. Project Partners

3. Freedom Roads: North Carolina’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Freedom Roads is a statewide trail system designed to recognize the roads, rivers and ports in North Carolina that were crucial to the efforts of enslaved African Americans seeking freedom

4. Freedom Roads is a statewide trail system designed to recognize those freedom seekers whose stories testify to the indomitable spirit found in thousands who strove to be free Harriet Jacobs (1813 – 1897) Edenton native, freedom seeker, Abolitionist, author Click on the book to read her story

5. Freedom Roads is a statewide trail system designed to recognize those groups and individuals who supported and assisted the efforts of freedom seekers Levi Coffin (Oct. 28, 1789 – Sept. 16, 1877) “President” of the Underground Railroad Click on Levi Coffin’s portrait to read his Reminiscences

6. Freedom Roads is a statewide trail system designed to highlight the story of freedom seeking via other avenues of liberation created during the Civil War William B. Gould Wilmington artisan, diarist, escaped slave, and US Navy sailor Approximately 6,000 men from North Carolina served in the US Colored Troops during the Civil War.

7. Freedom Roads Project Goals Provide content knowledge regarding the Underground Railroad (UGRR) in NC To encourage teachers to use Freedom Roads sites to tell the North Carolina UGRR story Provide activities to engage students with the Freedom Roads content Make a complex story less cumbersome for the classroom

8. Freedom Roads Sites on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Rivers and Waterways Ports Great Dismal SwampOld Town of Halifax Pasquotank RiverColonial Park (Edenton) Roanoke RiverOrange St. Landing Neuse River (Wilmington) Abolitionists Sites Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College Henry Sr. and Dorothy Copeland Burial Site (Rich Square) Pathway to Freedom (Snow Camp)

9. Freedom Roads Sites on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Freedom Colony and USCT Sites Roanoke Island Freedom Colony Memorial Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Hotel DeAfrique Monument James City (New Bern) Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson (near Southport) Plantation Community Sites Somerset Place (near Creswell) Historic Stagville (Durham)

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11. Freedom Roads educational resources include: an introductory narrative on the North Carolina Underground Railroad story brief biographical sketches of prominent freedom seekers and those that helped them in their attempts to escape slavery activity guides for using North Carolina’s freedom seeking story in the classroom glossary and bibliographical information to assist teachers in presenting content information on the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the Underground Railroad Freedom Roads: North Carolina’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

12. Example Biographical Sketches Harriet Ann Jacobs Delphina Gardner Mendenhall William B. Gould

13. Activity Guides Seven Years in Hiding: The Escape of Harriet Jacobs Crossing the Line: The Freedmen ’ s Colony on Roanoke Island “She is worthy, for whom this deed is to be done”: Quaker Abolitionism in North Carolina Runaway! The Roanoke River, Halifax and the Underground Railroad

14. Example Activity Guide

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17. Freedom Roads Workshops Summer 2014 Guilford College, Greensboro – June 13 Historic Halifax State Historic Site – August 4 Summer 2015 Durham – TBA New Bern – TBA