The+Underground+Railroad

=**//__The Underground Railroad__//**= = = =This is the Underground Railroad routes slaves would take to get to freedom.=

The Underground Railroad
====was created in 1787 for African American who escaped from their masters or owners and used secret routes and safe houses at abolitionists aid and services.====

__Who was in it? __
=This is Harriet Tubman a Conductor of th= = = =e Underground Railroad.= = = ====Harriet Tubman , was a former slave who ran away from a plantation in 1849 but returned to rescue others. she was guided by her “visions” and never lost a passenger When she would go back for others she would tell them to follow the North Star to freedom in Canada. ==== ====Henry "Box" Brown , was a slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a wooden crate. ==== = = ====Moses Roper , was born in Caswell county His father was a English master and his mother was a African American/Indian descent slave. ====

__Dangers of Escaping __
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[[image:slavery.jpg width="208" height="169"]]**This is a punishment slaves would get if they had ever anger their owner.**
====There were a lot of dangers and risks of escaping to the north. When people escaped to the underground railroad slaves were sometimes caught by slave catche rs if they were caught they would bring them back to their mas ==== = =

__Secret Messages __
= = ====Follow the drinking gourd was a song created in 1828 and the song was supposedly used by an underground railroad operative to encode escape instructions and map. ==== __//**Lyrics: **//__ __//**When the Sun comes back**//__ = = __//**And the first quail calls**//__ __//**Follow the Drinking Gourd,**//__ __//**For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom**//__ __//**If you follow the Drinking Gourd**//__ __//**The riverbank makes a very good road.**//__ __//**The dead trees will show you the way.**//__ __//**Left foot, peg foot, travelling on,**//__ __//**Follow the Drinking Gourd.**//__ __//**The river ends between two hills**//__ __//**Follow the Drinking Gourd.**//__ = = __//**There’s another river on the other side**//__ __//**Follow the Drinking Gourd.**//__ __//**When the great big river meets the little river**//__ __//**Follow the Drinking Gourd.**//__ __//**For the old man is a-waiting for to carry to freedom**//__ __//**If you follow the Drinking Gourd.**//__

====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Because it was against the law to educate slaves Secret messages were in the form of quilt patterns aided slaves escaping the bonds of captivity in the Southern states before and during the American Civil War. Go to the following site to make your own interactive underground railroad quilt. ==== http://pathways.thinkport.org/secrets/secret_quilt.cfm Resources =media type="file" key="Slavery.asf" width="373" height="373"= www.nationalgeographic.com/**railroad**/ www.Discoveryeducation.com teacher.scholastic.com/activities/.../**underground**_**railroad** www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html pathways.thinkport.org/flash_home.cfm http://www.osblackhistory.com/drinkinggourd.php

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