Featured Book: Heart and Soul Sometimes history can be overwhelming for me. It’s hard to keep the people and places and dates straight. I really like Heart and Soul because the history unfolds like a story. In fact, the book is written like an old lady talking. It’s like listening to your Grandmother explain it.
This is the kind of book that makes you proud to be a part of your country and it doesn’t matter if you are black or white or young or old. Our country is only 236 years old. That’s a baby country. And in that time we have worked through some struggles that could have ended really badly. Instead, we have struggled together to work out our differences and find common ground and build a life together.
This book shows how a country can go from thinking a black person was property to having a black president. It explains how changes were slowly made to help make that happen. It doesn’t say the job is done, but it shows how we got to where we are today. And it has the BEST paintings. Author: Kadir Nelson
More websites and books about slavery in America:
- National Geographic: The Underground Railroad
- Underground Railroad and Freedom Trails in the National Forests
- PBS: Africans in America
- Library of Congress: Voices from the Days of Slavery
- National Parks Service: Aboard the Underground Railroad
- American Memory: African American Odyssey
- Yahooligans: Slavery
- The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Slave Artifacts
Indiana Websites
- Levi Coffin House
- Painting: Fugitives Arriving at an Indiana Farm
- Reminiscences of Levi Coffin
- Indiana Historical Bureau: Slavery in Indiana
- Indiana Historical Bureau: Indiana and Fugitive Slave Laws
- Indiana Historical Bureau: The Politics of Slavery
- Access Geneaology: Slave Narratives of Indiana
- Conner Prairie: Follow the North Star Program
- ArtSmart Indiana: The Underground Railroad a Well-Kept Secret
- Full Text eBook: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives
- Underground Railroad Westfield: Indiana’s Proud and Secret History
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