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Underground Railroad and Cherokee Trail

Two websites were visited and one of them chosen to investigate information on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, and the Cherokee "Trail of Tears." The website was critiqued in relation to the information it contains on the topics of interest. The thesis is that the website will contain more information on one topic than the other.

The site used was http://memory.loc.gov/summary

This site was the site of the Library of Congress - American Memory website so would be expected to have a wealth of information on both these subjects, but this was not the case. There were only four items on the site relating to Harriet Tubman and non relating to the Cherokee "Trail of Tears." The site was a little difficult to get used to and find your way around. It is necessary to keep going to subheading after subheading to find anything, and then nothing is presented on the page. You have to look for another sign which is actually back at the top of the page which says "View this article." You don't know ahead of time what you are going to be looking at, and often times it is a picture rather than text. If you are familiar with the site it would be easy to navigate through but if you are not, it is not easy.

On Harriet Tubman there were five items listed. This is not nearly enough primary sources for a study of this topic. One is a book called Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford (Bradford). The book can be read on line. The second item is by the same author and is a book called Harriet Tubman The Moses of Her People (Bradford). Again, the book can be read on line, but since it is by the same author as the previous one, much of the information it contains is duplicated from the other book. In the beginning of the book is a letter written by Susan B. Anthony, written in 1903 and mentioning seeing Harriet Tubman alive and well at the home of mutual friends. Because both books are by the same author, we get only one pe...

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