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=**Welcome to the Slavery at the Outbreak of the Civil War Pathfinder!**=

Subject: 8th Grade Social Studies Teachers: Mrs. Dendy and Mrs. Renwick //Think of this pathfinder as the guide that will aid you in finding the information that you need to write journal entries and answer essential questions. Check the resources below!//**
 * School: Carver Junior High School, Spartanburg, South Carolina

=**Carver Library Catalog--the Place to Begin Your Research!**=

**Subject Headings to Keep in Mind**

 * United States-History-1861-1865, Civil War
 * Slavery
 * African Americans-History

Keywords to Keep in Mind

 * Civil War
 * Slaves
 * Confederacy
 * Union
 * Secession
 * Secession

=Books too Good to Miss About Slavery and African Americans=

Nonfiction
306.3 DeFord, Deborah H. //Life Under Slavery//. 2006 306.3 JOR Jordan, Anne D. Slavery and Resistance. 2007 306.3 LIT Littlejohn, Randy//. A Timeline of the Slave Trade in America.// 2004. 306.3 RAP Rappaport,//Doreen. No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance.// 2002. 306.3 SHA Sharp, Pearl. //The Slave Trade and the Middle Passage.// 2007. 326 KAT Katz, William L. //Breaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance//. 1990. 326 LES Lester, Julius//. To Be a Slave.// 1968. 759.13 FEE Feelings, Tom. //The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo.// 1995. 92 DOU Miller, Douglas T. //Frederick Douglass and the Fight for Freedom//. 1988. 92 TUB Allen, Thomas B. //Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Freed Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War.// 2006. 920 SLA Landau, Elaine, ed. //Slave Narratives: The Journey to Freedom//. 2001. 973 CUR Currie, Stephen. //Slavery//. 1999. 973 RAP Rappaport, Doreen. //Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom//. 1999. 973 OUR Stepto, Michele, ed. //Our Song, Our Toil: The Story of American Slavery as Told by Slaves.// 1994. 973.04 TAY Taylor, Kimberley H. //Black Abolitionists and Freedom Fighters//. 1996. 973.7 BAR Barr, Gary//. Slavery in the United States.// 2004. 973.7 BLA Coddon, Karin, ed. //Black Abolitionists//. 2004. 973.7 DEF DeFord, Deborah. //African Americans During the Civil War.// 2006. 973.7 DON Donlan, Leni. //Following Freedom//. 2007. 973.7 FOR Ford, Carin. //African-American Soldiers in the Civil War: Fighting for Freedom.// 2004. 973.7 HAS Haskins, James. //Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad.// 1993. 973.7 MCP McPherson, James. //Marching Toward Freedom: Blacks in the Civil War, 1861-1865.// 1991. 973.7 ROS Rossi, Ann. //Freedom Struggle: The Anti-Slavery Movement in America, 1830-1865.// 2005. 975.7 ROB Robinson, David. //Denmark Vesey//. 2000. REF 973.7 SCH Schneider, Dorothy. //Slavery in America.// 2007.

Fiction
F CUR Curtis, Christopher Paul. //Elijah of Buxton//. 2007. F DRA Draper, Sharon M. //Copper Sun//. 2007. F LES Lester, Julius. //Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue//. 2005. F LES Lester, Julius. //The Old African//. 2005. F LYO Lyons, Mary E. //Letters from a Slave Boy//. 2007. F MOS Moses, Sheila P. //The Baptism//. 2007 F MUS Mussi, Sarah. //The Door of No Return//. 2008. F RIN Rinaldi, Ann. //Come Juneteenth//. 2007. F WAL Walter, Mildred P. //Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl//. 1996. SC MCK McKissack, Patricia. //The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural. 1998.//

**Easy Picture Books**
E POL Polacco, Patricia. //Pink and Say//. 1994. E RIN Rinaldi, Ann. //Taking Liberty: The Story of Orney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave//. 2004. E WOO Woodson, Jacqueline. //Show Way//. 2005. E 973.7 CLI Clinton, Catherine. //Hold the Flag High//. 2005. E 973.7 RAP Rappaport, Doreen. //Freedom Ship//. 2006.

=Books too Good to Miss About the Civil War=

**Nonfiction**
811 LEW Lewis, J. Patrick. //The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse//. 2007. 92 BRA Pflueger, Lynda. //Mathew Brady: Photographer of the Civil War//. 2001. 92 LIN Freedman, Russell. //Lincoln: A Photobiography//. 1987. 92 LIN Marrin, Albert. Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. 2003. 92 STO Fritz, Jean. //Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers//. 1994. 973.7 AND Anderson, Dale. //The Causes of the Civil War//. 2004. 973.7 AND Anderson, Dale. //A Soldier's Life in the Civil War//. 2004. 973.7 BIE Biel, Timothy L. //Life in the North During the Civil War//. 1997. 973.7 BRE Brewer, Paul. //The American Civil War//. 1999. 973.7 CHA Chang, Ina. //A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War//. 1991. 973.7 CRE Crewe, Sabrina. //Fort Sumter: The Civil War Begins//. 2005. 973.7 DAV Davis, William C. //Brothers in Arms: The Lives and Experiences of the Men who Fought in the Civil War--in their own words//. 1995. 973.7 DOL Dolan, Edward F. //The American Civil War: A House Divided//. 1997. 973.7 HAK Hakim, Joy. //War, Terrible War//. 2003. 973.7 MUR Murphy, Jim. //The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War//. 1990. 973.7 NAT Hale, Sarah E., ed. //Nation at War: Soldiers, Saints, and Spies//. 2005. 973.7 PIG Piggins, Carol A. //A Multicultural Portrait of the Civil War//. 1994. 973.7 RAY Ray, Delia. //Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's Life in the Civil War.// 1996. 973.7 RAY Ray, Delia. //A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began//. 1996. 973.7 REE Reef, Catherine. //Civil War Soldiers//. 1993. 973.7 SHE Sheinkin, Steve. //Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War//. 2008. 973.7 VIE Vierow, Wendy. //Shots Fired at Fort Sumter: Civil War Breaks Out!// 2004. 973.7 VOI Meltzer, Milton, ed. //Voices from the Civil War: A Documentary History of the Great American Conflict//. 1989. 975 REG Reger, James P. //Life in the South During the Civil War//. 1997. 976.2 ISA Isaacs, Sally S. //Life on a Southern Plantation//. 2000. REF 973.7 AME Civil War Society, ed. //The American Civil War: A Multicultural Encyclopedia//. 1994. REF 973.7 SEG Segal, Justin. //Civil War Almanac//. 1997.

**Fiction Books**
F BRI Brill, Marlene T. //Diary of a Drummer Boy//. 1998. F CRI Crisp, Marty. //Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg//. 2001 F FLE Fleischman, Paul. //Bull Run//. 1993 F HAH Hahn, Mary Downing. //Hear the Wind Blow//. 2003 F NIX Nixon, Joan Lowery. //A Dangerous Promise//. 1994. F WEL Wells, Rosemary. //Red Moon at Sharpsburg: A Novel//. 2007 F PAU Paulsen, Gary. //Soldier's Heart//. 2000 F PEC Peck, Richard. //The River Between Us//. 2004

=**Websites too Good to Miss About Slavery and African Americans**= A Slave's Life http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slavelife.htm African Americans in Slavery http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/underground/slave.htm Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html From Slavery to Freedom http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/ Slave Insurrections http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/slave_insurrections.htm Slavery and the Making of America http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/ Speaking for Slave Women http://www.bowdoin.edu/~prael/projects/gsonnen/page2.html A Journey from Slavery to Freedom http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm Slave Life and the Underground Railroad http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstoryinhistory/tryathome/activities_slave.html Slave Life in the Americas http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

=**Websites too Good to Miss about the Civil War**= Selected Civil War Photographs http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/ Camp Life: Civil War Collections http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/gettex/living.html Civil War at Smithsonian http://www.civilwar.si.edu/ A War to End Slavery http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web06/index.html A Shifting Political Landscape http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html The Civil War http://www.teacheroz.com/civilwar.htm#women Soldiers' Letters http://www.28thmass.org/letters.htm Civil War Women http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/civil-war-women/ Secession and Civil War http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch6_p9.htm American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html#crisis Civil War Homepage http://www.civil-war.net/ Ken Burns' Civil War http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/ What Caused the Civil War http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/cause.htm Manuscripts from the Civil War http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/ Stories from the Civil War http://www.awesomestories.com/ *Ask Mrs. Renwick for the password

=DVDs= DVD F BRO //Brother Future//. Feature Films. 2005. The story of a young man who goes back in time to find himself being sold as a slave. DVD F HAM //House of Dies Drear//. Wonderworks. 1990. The story of a family's adventures when they move into a house that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Based on the novel by Virginia Hamilton. DVD F PAU //Nightjohn//. 2005. The story of a slave who risks her life to learn to read. Based on the novel by Gary Paulsen. DVD F UNC //Uncle Tom's Cabin//. Universal Pictures. 1999. Harriet Beecher Stowe's story of the horrors of slavery in the antebellum south.

=Online Databases and Encyclopedias= In **DISCUS** http://www.scdiscus.org/ *Ask Mrs. Renwick for password.
 * Biography Resource Center //a great source for biographies//
 * Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia //a great source of background information//
 * History Resource Center-U.S. //a great source for biographies, primary sources, and the magazines, American Heritage and Civil War History//

http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Login?ed=wb *Ask Mrs. Renwick for password.
 * World Book Online**

=Streamline Video Clips= http://www.scetv.org/education/streamlinesc/index.cfm *Ask Mrs. Renwick for the password.

//The Causes of the Civil War.// 29 minutes//.// (Segments include "Abolitionists") //The Causes of War.// 14 minutes//.// (Segments, include "Southern Plantations and Farms: Slave Labor") //The Underground Railroad: Escape from Slavery//. 25 minutes. (Segments include "The Slave Trade" and "Plantations") //American Slavery: The Southern Plantation Way of Life//. 14 minutes. (Segments include 'The Life of a Plantation Slave") //American History: Abolishing Slave Trade in America//. 55 minutes. (Segments include "Uncle Tom's Cabin:Politics and the Pen") //America in the Eight Years Before the Outbreak of the Civil War//.15 minutes.(Segments include"The Lincoln-Douglas Debates")

=Local Resources= http://www.infodepot.org/zKroom/KRoom.asp

Dont' forget the //Kennedy Room of Local and South Carolina History// at the Headquarters Library of the Spartanburg Public Library for some interesting primary sources: //Historical maps of South Carolina and service records of Confederate soldiers//.

=Ending Well= Along with your Research Notebook, these are helpful sites for research informaton MLA Formatting http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ Easy Bibliographies http://www.easybib.com/ How to Do Research http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/homebase.html Information Seeking Model http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/