Transcript Underground Railroad By: Shane Owens

Underground Railroad
By: Shane Owens
Conductors
A conductor is a person who
helped out on the
underground railroad and
lead slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman was one of
the great conductors
Everyone trusted her since
she escaped so many times.
How Harriet Tubman got
involved
Harriet Tubman got involved because she was a
conductor, she was showing people the way to
freedom also she wanted people to feel like she felt
when she became free.
Consequences
If the slaves were caught the were sold or beaten
with a whip or some time they were lynched.
Slaves were even sold with a whole family children
and parents.
A sack of potatoes
Meant escaping
Slaves hidden
Under the farm
Produce in a wagon.
“The dead trees will show
You the way” meant that moss
Grows on the NORTH side of dead
Trees in case stars aren’t visible to
Guide the slaves.
Routes on the underground
railroad
The underground railroad wasn’t really a railroad.
It was a maze of pathways used by black slaves to
get to freedom which were house to help them
escape.
The name came from the way the runaway slaves
seemed to disappear “underground” when they were
being chased by slave catchers, or slave owners.
“Famous Quote”
“Harriet Tubman had other plans as she later wrote
there was one of the two things I had a right to,liberty
or death if I could not have one,I would have the other
for no man should take me alive,I should fight for my
liberty as long as my strength last.”
By:Harriet Tubman
Primary Source
We saw the lighting and that was the guns;
And then we heard the thunder and that was
The big guns;and then we heard the rain falling
;and that was the blood falling ;and when we
Came to get the crops ,it was dead men that
We reaped.
1830s
Raise in popularity of the railroad train leds name and image to movement of escaping slaves
1838
Black abolitionist Robert Purvis becomes chairman of the General Vigilance Committee in New York:
purpose is to assist runaways
1847-63
Frederick Douglass, U.S. and escaped slave, publishes newspaper, the North Star
1848
First Women`s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York; abolitions Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth
Candy Stanton, and Frederick Douglass attends; women`s rights and abolitionist movements join forces
1849
Harriet Tubman,escaped slave, leads over three hundred slaves to freedom via Underground Railroad
over a period of time
1850
publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, Which reveals the Second Fugitive Slave Law passed
1851
Sojourner Truth gives "Ain't I a Woman" speech at women's rights convention in Arkon, Ohio, protesting both
racial and gender stereotyping
1856
Henry "Box" Brown mails himself in a wooden crate from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia to the Anti-Slavery
Society, he succeeds
1857
Dred Scott Case; Supreme Court rules against Dred Scott, Who filed suit claiming freedom when his owner
took him to the free state of Illinois but then sent Scott back to Missouri, a slave state
1858
On Jekyll Island, Georgia, slave ship Wanderer arrives carrying what may have been the last cargo of slaves to
America
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Key Points
The conductors helped
lead the slaves to
freedom.
Slaves fled to Florida
and British areas,
Canada, Mexico, the
Caribbean for safety.
The underground
railroad wasn’t a tunnel
but houses to help
slaves escape.
The transportation that
they used were wagons
trains and by foot.
The consequences that
slaves had were they
were lashed or lynched.
Harriet’s courage
encouraged black
women in the future.