Transcript Underground Railroad - Spring Grove Area School District

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Underground Railroad
What do you know about it?
1810-1850
► An
informal network of secret routes and
safe houses used by black slaves to escape
to free states & Canada.
► Abolitionists helped slaves to destination
► Traveled mainly on foot
or by wagon
Terms
► Conductors
► Stations
► Stockholders
► Agents
► passengers
Symbols
Slaves were uneducated and
illiterate
► Drinking
gourd song & constellation
► http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/family_learning_no
ok/Title_Units/UnderGround/ur_flashgames/gourd
_song_final.html
► provided slaves with coded directions for an
Underground Railroad escape route north from
Alabama & Mississippi.
► It instructs escapees to travel up the Tombigbee
River, cross over to the Tennessee River, and
follow it to the Ohio River where they could cross
to freedom in the North.
Symbols
Quilts
► Quilts
were used to signal & direct slaves to
escape routes & assistance
► 10 quilt patterns
► Placed one at a time on
a fence
► Signal to prepare
to escape and give direction
Lantern in the window
► Of
a house was a sign of a “safe house” for
food & shelter.
Moses is Coming:
Breathing Free:
Harriet Tubman
William Still
Harriet “Moses” Tubman
► Maryland
slave; terribly beaten & whipped as a
child
► Escaped to Philadelphia in 1849
► Rescued over 70 slaves; helped them through
Underground Railroad
► Recruited men w/ John Brown for raid on Harper’s
Ferry
► Spy for Union army in Civil War
► First woman to lead armed expedition in the war
William Still
► Free
African-American, lived in Philadelphia
► Father of the Underground Railroad
► Helped as many as 60 slaves a month to
freedom
► kept meticulous records of all slaves that
he helped
The Journey of
Henry “Box” Brown
►
One of the more fascinating parts of the story of Henry “Box” Brown is
how Brown spent over 24 hours in a box during his trip. How big was
the box? Would you be comfortable in it? Let’s find out…
►
“Ordinary modes of travel he concluded might prove disastrous to his
hopes; he, therefore, hit upon a new invention altogether, which was
to have himself boxed up and forwarded to Philadelphia direct by
express. The size of the box and how it was to be made to fit him most
comfortably, was of his own ordering. Two feet eight inches deep,
two feet wide, and three feet long were the exact dimensions
of the box, lined with baize. His resources with regard to food and
water consisted of the following: One bladder of water and a few small
biscuits. His mechanical implement to meet the death-struggle for
fresh air, all told, was one large gimlet."
► The
Underground Railroad in York
► Movie clip