Class I railroad

I am not finished becoming the individual that I will one day be. In this past year, my personal character has developed exponentially and particular traits and strengths of my character have become evident. My first year of college taught me more about myself than the entirety of my youth had previously taught me. It taught me that given any task or challenge, if I put my mind to it and commit myself, I possess the work-ethic and persistence to perform whatever it takes to accomplish the task…

A significant geographic location that portrays relevance to Black New York is the Hendrick I. Lott House. The Hendrick I. Lott House is a Dutch-American neighborhood house that has been sustained since 1720 (Croghan, 2015). This house is interconnected with slavery that occurred within people of African decent along with serving as a safe house along the Underground Railroad. The Hendrick I. Lott House is located at 1940 East 36th Street in Brooklyn, New York. The Lott House rests in the…

thought. Crowded hallways, obnoxious yelling, stubborn students, waking up early, seven hours of classes, and homework. Though school has classes like World History and there is homework and teachers who play favorites, I do have my band family and my friends. Plus, a structure so I don’t waste the day away. There’s always a bright side to everything, even school, like yin and yang. Everyone has likes and dislikes about school- the rules, the classes, and just in general- especially a very…

Little known to the world Harriet was passionate about her cause. From her visions she was able to see what she had to do and risked her life countless times to save all who she could. “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”(BrainyQuote.com) one of the issues of the time was that most African American slaves had been institutionalized to the functions of plantation and their subservient lifestyle…

that slavery was immoral and someone had to stand up against it despite the consequences that came with it . Sojourner Truth was one of many abolitionist that influenced the ending of slavery . She experienced a great deal of adversity with her “Ain 't I a Woman” speech , which wasn 't only an abolitionist speech but also a speech addressing women 's rights . In Frances Dana Gage’s account of Truth 's speech she noted“ A buzz of disapprobation was heard all over the house, and there fell on the…

“I dragged Curzon across the street and down the last two blocks to the wharf”(298). In this part, Isabel helps Curzon get out of the prison and to the wharf by telling the guards that he was dead. “‘He’s dead’... I grabbed Curzon under his armpits and dragged him across the floor and out the door… ‘You’re dead’... ‘No noise’”(294,295). After she had gotten him out of the prison, she needed to get him to the wharf, past British guards “He was not strong enough to walk on his own. I was not…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel that was written as a call to action to its readers against slavery in the United States. Through many characters, mainly Tom, Stowe illustrates the heart-breaking realities of slavery to her readers. One instrumental way that Stowe did this was through the rhetorical device of antithesis. Two characters who embody Stowe’s use of antithesis are Tom Loker and Mr. Haley. Haley is described as a “short, thickset man” (3) and Loker as having a…

became a leading abolitionist. Harriet Tubman successfully escaped from slavery in 1849, but returned many times to help rescue her family members, and friends. She led thousands of slaves to freedom as a conductor of ‘The Underground Railroad’. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of safe houses. When Tubman escaped, she feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate and life. The dynamics of escaping slavery changed in 1850, with the passage of the…

The Van Hiele Theory applies to the article “Freedom Quilts and the Underground Railroad.” The three level of Van Hiele are used in the Freedom Quilt Activity. These three levels are recognizing figures by their appearance, recognizing/analyzing figures by their properties or components, and forming abstract definitions and classifying figures by their elaborating on their interrelationships. Students will be scaffolding as they are analyzing the shapes. At the second part of the activity, the…

from her master’s plantation, in Maryland, in 1849, leaving behind her husband in hopes to find a better life for herself. According to Tubman herself, “ Mah people mus’ go free”, and so they did, as she became the lead conductor of the Underground Railroad. Subsequently, with the Fugitive Slave law coming into play, Harriet Tubman put herself in tremendous danger to free hundreds of slaves, but she believed in her cause and that what she was doing was necessary; that slaves were really people…