Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

• What do you know about it?

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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

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Terms

• Conductors
• Stations
• Stockholders
• Agents
• passengers

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Symbols Slaves were uneducated and illiterate

• Drinking gourd song constellation
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• 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.

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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

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Lantern in the window

• Of a house was a sign of a safe house for food
  shelter.

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Link to Goodridge home in York

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