Mazz Media
Underground Railroad
This live-action video program is about the word Underground Railroad. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Underground Railroad through use of video footage, photographs,...
Curated Video
America's Journey Through Slavery: Opposing Slavery: The Abolitionist's Movement
This program begins by exploring the development of slavery in America and the conditions under which enslaved people lived and worked. Then, through reenactments, the video focuses on key members of the abolitionist movement including...
Curated Video
Standing Up For Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in America
From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800s to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900s, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America. Students will learn about the courageous leaders of the Abolitionist Movement...
Mazz Media
Suffrage
This live-action video program is about the word Suffrage. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Suffrage through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Curated Video
Anti death penalty protest
1. Wide pan of banner entitled 'Together against the Death Penalty'
2. Mid shot of people attaching names of people executed to their clothes
3. Mid shot of people holding white face masks
4. Close up shot of poster with a painting of an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Underground Railroad
Black slaves fleeing their imprisonment in the South often sought the help of sympathetic Northerners while on their way to Canada. WLVT PBS 39 Tempo! investigates how the underground railroad traveled through an 18th Century house in...
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: William Still
An audio file and transcript discussing famous abolitionist William Still's work on the Underground Railroad. [3:23]
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Frederick Douglass
A combination of still photos and video tells the life story of Frederick Douglass. Includes a link to the Frederick Douglass museum. [19:04]
A&E Television
History.com: The Abolitionist Movement
A detailed account of the Abolitionist Movement, and the roles certain men and women took to ensure the liberation of all slaves. Hear of Reverend John Rankin's freedom lantern, William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and John Brown's...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Created Equal: The Abolitionists
A three-episode documentary film that tells the story of the individuals who fought to end slavery in the United States. Five people are highlighted: William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: John Brown's Holy War: John Brown's Life
A timeline of abolitionist John Brown's life. Click on the links to the left to go to more information regarding Brown, Harpers Ferry, a map of his travels, and a teacher's guide.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: John Brown's Holy War: Following John Brown 1800 1859
Students can follow the adventures of abolitionist John Brown through many areas of the United States, either chronologically or by location by using the interactive map.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Uncle Tom's Cabin Influence of the Fugitive Slave Act
This Khan Academy resource is a video lesson [8:27] that discusses the implications of the Fugitive Slave Law.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 5: 1844 1877: Uncle Tom's Cabin
This Khan Academy resource provides a video lesson [6:19] that provides a plot summary and analysis of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. This lesson emphasizes the impact of this book on American readers. The lesson is accompanied with a...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
[Free Registration/Login Required] Professor Catherine Clinton, of Queens University Belfast, delivers a presentation about the life of Harriet Tubman and her quest for freedom. [33:11]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Uncle Tom's Cabin Reception and Significance
How did Northerners, Southerners, and the international community receive Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel? Kim and Becca discuss the reception and far-reaching consequences of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [7:09]
A&E Television
History.com: Frederick Douglass
Resource provides a biography of Frederick Douglass, famous abolitionist, writer, and orator. [2:25]