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significant figures that were imperative to the movement’s success: Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett, and William Still. Harriet Tubman was a “conductor” who led over 300 fugitives to freedom in the northern states and Canada. Thomas Garrett’s role in the Underground Railroad was a “station master”, and he sheltered thousands slaves on their way to free territory. William Still, born a free black man, was an “agent”, meaning he helped fugitives find the railroad, as well as recorded their…

We are pleased to present "The Emancipation Proclamation at 150," an anthology of essays produced by President Lincoln's Cottage, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in collaboration with the United States Commission on Civil Rights. President Lincoln developed the Emancipation Proclamation while living at the Cottage in the summer of 1862. For many years that fact was recognized and appreciated. A December 1936 article from The Washington Post described a woman’s pilgrimage…

The book titled Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner examines in depth, as the name suggests, the Underground Railroad, but it also discusses the numerous abolitionist associations and the people, black and white, who conducted them. These abolitionist organizations and the Underground Railroad often went hand in hand with the abolitionist organizations assisting runaways and fugitives in their search for a new, better life either in the North or…

Harriet Tubman was a slave. She was against slavery and wanted every African American free. She decided that one day she would become free. Since she worked closely by the Underground Railroad, she led the slaves to the Underground Railroad and freed them. Today she is known for her bravery and saving over 300 slaves in the late 1800’s. Harriet Tubman was born in 1820. She had 7 siblings and her parents, and they were also slaves. She started doing housework and caring for white children on…

What is Underground Railroad? Where it runs through? It is a secret system that aids runaway slaves to escape to North and Canada. First, the “conductor”, who is the guide acts like a worker of the plantation and then the guide, helps the slave to escape from the slaveholder. Later, the “conductor” guides the fugitive to move from one station to another. The “stations” are secure places where fugitives can rest and eat, an alert is sent to the stationmaster to make the next movement. Also,…

remember those kids like it was yesterday because they exacerbated me so much. Two years later, your grandmother and I had heard of this thing called an underground railroad, where slaves were able to escape!” I told them excitedly. “Yay! So you had some hope of escaping!” Kelly yelled. “By the next few day, all the slaves knew about the underground railroad. Many suggested hanging up gourds to tell everyone when it was safe to leave. The song Follow the Drinking Gourd told us to follow the…

by the name of John Tubman. Though this didn’t change her slave status, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman(Background Essay). Throughout the years Harriet Tubman accomplished many things, but the thing that she is known for is working on the Underground Railroad(Document B). Harriet also took a total of 38 slaves…

The Underground Railroad The “underground railroad” was an arrangement of houses and abolitionists who hid runaway slaves on their quest for freedom to Canada, before the civil war. Harriet Tubman, William Still, and Thomas Garrett played major roles in the railroad, from the formation to the operation of the railroad. Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the railroad, who would personally take trips south, and escort them the entire way to freedom. William Still was a conductor at the grand…

“You’ll be free or die a slave!”(Americaslibrary.com) she was able to see what they were not and understood that if they went back then they would be tortured and bribed until they told her assailants where she was and discloses the route to the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s roll in history was not only that of a liberator, but also one of a fighter! In 1862 Tubman was recruited to be a spy for the Union Forces in the civil war amongst other militias and domestic careers. One year…

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 neighborhood known as, Marine Park. The house was originally purchased by Johannes Lott. Johannes Lott was a farmer…