Listen to one man's moment of emancipation.   Click to Start. Click Again to Stop. "One day I was out milking the cows. Mr. Dave come down to the field and he had a paper in his hand. "Listen to me, Tom," he said. "Listen to what I read you." And he read from a paper all about how I was free. You can't tell how I felt. "You're joking me," I says. "Naw, I ain't," says he. "You're free." "Naw," says I, "it's a joke." "Naw," says he, "it's a law that I got to read this paper to you. Now listen while I read it again." Was I happy? You can take anything. No matter how good you treat it, it wants to be free. You can treat it good and feed it and give it everything it seems to want, but if you open the cage, it's happy. My name is Tom Robinson."

Freedmen and Southern Society Project
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/fssphome.htm
Focused on the time period 1861 to 1867 and the events leading to emancipation, this site contains a sampling of primary documents, generally letters "regarding becoming free or reasons for freeing slaves." The references are to materials and resources on the topic that are available for purchase. There are "no teacher created lessons that accompany the site." Reviews noted the site would be most appropriate for "someone conducting scholarly research" more so than middle or high school students.
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