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Slave Life
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/living/history.html
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slavelife.htm
http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/plantation.htm
Chorus 1 Character Research
Edward Brodas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
Elizabeth Brodas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
Anthony “Doc” Thompson
http://www.ushistory.org/us/5e.asp
Susan Stanfield
http://www.ushistory.org/us/5e.asp
Jeremiah
See: “Slave Life”
Martin
See: “Slave Life”
Ebony
See: “Slave Life”
Charity
See: “Slave Life”
Mitchell the Auctioneer
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/slave_auction.htm
Chorus 2 Character Research
John C. Calhoun
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000044
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Calhoun
Henry Clay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482
William H. Seward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward
Stephen A. Douglas
http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/douglas-sa.html
John Breckinridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge
http://www.nndb.com/people/557/000050407/
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000789
Chorus 3 Character Research
John Tubman
http://worldhistoryproject.org/1844/harriet-tubman-marries-john-tubman
Slave Jim
See: “Slave Life”
Old Ritt Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
See also: “Slave Life”
Benjamin Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
See also: “Slave Life”
Modesty
See: “Slave Life”
James Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
See: also “Slave Life”
Chorus 4 Character Research
Barrett the Overseer
http://us-civil-war.suite101.com/article.cfm/plantation_overseers
Hadley the Storekeeper
F. H. Pettis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_catcher
Patty Cannon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Cannon
http://www.russpickett.com/history/delunder.htm
Edward Prigg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_catcher
Thomas Otwell
Chorus 5 Character Research
Franny Seward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Adeline_Seward
Thomas Garrett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Garrett
http://www.whispersofangels.com/biographies.html
http://www.russpickett.com/history/delunder.htm
http://www.russpickett.com/history/garrbio.htm
Levi Coffin
http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088
Samuel Green
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Green_(freedman)
http://pathways.thinkport.org/library/people2.cfm#green
Letitia Still
http://www.nndb.com/people/895/000206277/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Still
Gerrit Smith
Chorus 6 Character Research
Linah Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
See also: “Slave Life”
Sophie Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Family_and_birth
See also: “Slave Life”
Henry Bibb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bibb
Josiah Henson
http://www.yourdictionary.com/biography/josiah-henson
Ellen/William Craft
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-622
Eliza Harris
http://www.mrlinfo.org/famous-visitors/Eliza-Harris.htm
http://www.nku.edu/~undergroundrr/photographs/pages/elizaharrissign.php
Chorus 7 Character Research
Frederick Douglass
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Frederick_Douglass
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass
http://www.frederickdouglasshonorsociety.org/douglass-history.html
William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html
http://www.nndb.com/people/966/000049819/
http://biography.edigg.com/William_Lloyd_Garrison.shtml
Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/
http://americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html
http://www.history.com/topics/harriet-beecher-stowe
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-beecher-stowe-9496479
Sojourner Truth
http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Archive/LegacyOfFaith.htm
http://www.sojournertruth.org/
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sojournertruth/
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth
Lucretia Mott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott
HTTP://WOMENSHISTORY.ABOUT.COM/OD/SUFFRAGEPRE1848/P/LUCRETIA_MOTT.HTM
http://www.mott.pomona.edu/mott1.htm
Margaretta Forten
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p477.html
William Still
http://www.nndb.com/people/895/000206277/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Still
Chorus 8 Character Research
Harriet Tubman
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/harriettubman/a/tubman_slavery.htm
http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=harriet+tubman+history&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=0133C2C030B1361782610133C2C030B136178261
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Harriet+Tubman+Underground+Railroad+Pictures&Form=VQFRVP#view=detail&mid=61C1C0496A7B91E4CBC661C1C0496A7B91E4CBC6
Reverend Jermain Loguen
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/loguen-jermain-wesley-1813-1872
John Fairfield
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairfield_(abolitionist)
Laura Haviland
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Fl-Ka/Haviland-Laura-S.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Smith_Haviland
Calvin Fairbanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Fairbank
http://www.theliberatorfiles.com/category/fairbanks-calvin/