Black History Month (February)

This article provides descriptions and photos of 5 key Canadian locations (stations or safehouses) in the Underground Railroad.

Learn about the origins and organization of the underground railroad. This article also describes some of the stations, symbols and codes used in the network.

This short video depicts what it may have been like to use the Underground Railroad, a secret path for some enslaved African Americans to escape to freedom in Canada in the 1850s.

This page has lesson ideas based on the Underground Railroad Heritage Minute video clip. The lessons are suitable for grades 4-9.

The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada was the last of several short-lived anti-slavery societies in Canada. These societies were part of an international abolitionist movement supported by leading moral thinkers of the day in Britain, Europe and the United States.

E.B. meets a First Nations guide, who shows him how native tribes aided escaping slaves; then he visits a safe house across the Canadian border. The "Band of Angels" were the people who, like Harriet Tubman, took personal risks to help escaping slaves find freedom.

A lesson plan and other resources developed for elementary students that focuses on the Underground Railroad.

Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.