Claire W. D Block

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

1500s-1865

A American women helping slaves to the next safe house.

SUBJECTS *How it all began *Where the Railroad Ran *End of Slavery

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HOW IT ALL BEGAN

I just came to America!!!! But these Americans are tying me up in chains around my neck and feet, selling me away from my family. At least I can cry inside, instead of everyone seeing my tears in my eyes. The Underground Railroad was an escape for African American slaves seeking freedom in the north.

Sub topic 1.

In the 1500s people from Spain

were sol like cattle for $1,000 each.

Owners of the slaves had the power to

traveled to America. When they came

torture and beat them up, in severe

to America the Americans made them become slaves. When the centuries

cases some owners killed them if they did something horrible, like running

grew there were colonies. The northern depended on manufacturing

away.

and trading. The southerners depended on crops (cotton.) The slaves for the northern half didn’t have to do much so they didn’t really have slaves there. In the southern part they

Slaves Working in the fields sunrise to sunset.

had to produce cotton so they had to work in the fields from dawn till dusk.

The women slaves and men slaves

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Where the Railroad Ran Sub topic 2.

The Underground Railroad wasn’t

Henry Brown whose story turned his name to Henry Box Brown. His story is that he shipped himself in a box to

SLAVERY.......

philadelphia in order to escape slavery where the people from the south of the in which he became a free man. colonies tried to escape from their underground nor a railroad. It was

masters in the southern colonies who in the previous paragraph is when the Spain travelers came and had to work in the fields and get beat up by their masters. The Underground Railroad had no exact route. The Underground Railroad was multiple houses who had symbols that the people who drive the escaped slaves would stay at the place and travel to the next spot during the night so the police wouldn’t arrest the slaves and the person caring for the slaves. Although some people would go by foot in the forest. The slaves would travel for months sometimes. One man whose name is

Imagine working in the burning sun day till night plus the beatings the soldiers gave us if we stopped. Also having to do that till you die. I know I wouldn’t be able to do that. This is a image of men and women as slaves and the housing they had.

A phrase of the Underground Railroad.

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Dear Ma(mrs.Weaver), We have a serious problem on our hands. Just a few days ago Miz Lizbet Charles passed away, and were containing her in a room. I don’t disagree with the plan but I also don’t agree that we should do it. I need guidance mother.

- James your son.

The End of Slavery Subtopic 3.

The slavery war ended on June 22, 1865. Some slave owners still captured and tortured their slaves.

Slavery officially ended on December 6, 1865. In which ALL slaves became free men and women. Just in Kentucky and Delaware alone there were

Dear James my son, The snow here is awful, I don’t know what your dad is thinking i’ll be back as soon as I can.

40,000-45,000 slaves became free from slavery and free men and woman.

-Mrs.Weaver aka mom

color of people’s skin or how they act

In our daily life we learned from the Underground Railroad that the doesn’t make a difference and that a man is a man and a woman is a woman. The Underground Railroad was a escape of African Americans seeking freedom in the north.

The Underground Railroad had a big impact on human history since all men became equal and not long after the women got rights. The Underground Railroad needed to be remembered, there were statues in the name of the Underground Railroad.

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Works Cited Heinrichs, Ann. The Underground Railroad. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point, 2001. Print.

Ruby, Lois. Steal Away Home. New York: Macmillan, 1994. Print.

"Underground Railroad." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015.

"Underground Railroad." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015.

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