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Title: Underground Railroad


1
Underground Railroad
  • What do you know about it?

2
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

3
Terms
  • Conductors
  • Stations
  • Stockholders
  • Agents
  • passengers

4
Symbols Slaves were uneducated and illiterate
  • Drinking gourd song constellation
  • http//www.ceismc.gatech.edu/family_learning_nook/
    Title_Units/UnderGround/ur_flashgames/gourd_song_f
    inal.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.

5
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

6
Lantern in the window
  • Of a house was a sign of a safe house for food
    shelter.

7
Link to Goodridge home in York
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