The underground railroad was a trial with series of stops or safe houses where runaway slaves would stay to rest, hide, and to eat some food. It was made for slaves to escape the South and go to the North to be freed slave.
The fugitive slave act is a law that was passed to prevent slave that escaped the South to go to the North had to be returned back to their owner and be punished. Those who helped the slaves escape either went to to jail for 6 years or had to pay a fee of $1,000.
The song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” was the directions for fleeing slaves to escape to the North from Mobile, Alabama to the Ohio river and then they were free. Also the Drinking Gourd was also known as the Big Dipper.
•Susan B. Anthony is an abolitionist
The fugitive slave act is a law that was passed to prevent slave that escaped the South to go to the North had to be returned back to their owner and be punished. Those who helped the slaves escape either went to to jail for 6 years or had to pay a fee of $1,000.
The song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” was the directions for fleeing slaves to escape to the North from Mobile, Alabama to the Ohio river and then they were free. Also the Drinking Gourd was also known as the Big Dipper.
•Susan B. Anthony is an abolitionist