Underground Railroad
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Underground Railroad
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VocabularyAbolition: the movement to end slaveryAbolitionist: a person who believed and worked for the abolishment (end) of slavery
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The Underground Railroad
Above-ground series of escape routes for slaves traveling NorthConsisted of “stations” or safe houses owned by abolitionists“Conductors” were people who led the runaways to freedom (like guides)
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Henry “Box” BrownPacked himself in a box and shipped himself to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Harriet JacobsHid in a crawl space in her grandmother’s attic for seven yearsFinally escaped to Philadelphia by boat in 1842Wrote a novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which was one of the first autobiographical accounts of the struggle for freedom and the sexual abuse endured by many female slaves
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Frederick DouglassEscaped slave, social reformer, orator, writer, and statesmanLeader of the abolitionist movementKnown for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writingActed as a living counter-example to slaveholders’ arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as free American citizens
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Would you take the risk?If slaves were caught, they were sold or beaten with a whip; sometimes they were lynched (hung)
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet TubmanBorn a slave in MarylandEscaped using the Underground RailroadShe made 19 journeys from the South to the North as a Conductor on the Underground Railroad
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Harriet TubmanSouthern plantation owners offered $40,000 for her captureShe was never caught.
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SpiritualsMany spirituals referred directly to the Underground Railroad
Singing as an expression of valuesSinging as a source of inspiration or motivationSinging as an expression of protestSinging as a communication tool
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Chorus:Swing low, sweet chariot,Comin' for to carry me home!
I looked over Jordan and what did I see,Comin' for to carry me home!A band of angels comin' after me,Comin' for to carry me home!Chorus:
If you get there before I do,Comin' for to carry me home,Jess tell my friends that I'm acomin' too,Comin' for to carry me home.Chorus:
I'm sometimes up and sometimes down,Comin' for to carry me home,But still my soul feels heavenly boundComin' for to carry me home!
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QuiltsDuring the time of the Underground Railroad fugitive slaves would use quilts as a means of communication. Quilts were used by conductors to help fugitive slaves flee the South and arrive safely in the North.
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