Underground Operations

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…

From the moment I was accepted into this program, I have been in shock. As soon as the plan put down its wheels and I landed in London It hit me we were in London, but not as hard as I thought it would. London at first impression was they drive fast and it was scary when crossing a road because I still do this day do not know which way to look so I look both ways. The ambulance sirens and are ten times louder than any United States one. London was not what I expected, but better. The dogs all…

The United States was built on slavery and our “Founding Fathers” overlooked the harsh cruelties of it’s nature to advance the developing country. Slavery was immoral , and had to come to an end , but this could not happen overnight . Overtime , people stood up and started to voice their opinions on abolishing slavery , these people were called abolitionist . In this time period , a man or woman would have to be extremely courageous to speak out against slavery, especially with the gag-rule ,…

In the award winning novel Chains, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, presents an historical Revolutionary War novel where a young slave girl must escape to freedom to save her sister, Ruth. This takes her on a perilous journey through eighteenth century America towards freedom, where the only way out is perseverance and courage. Through scenes in the book, Anderson implies that to improve your situation and work towards a cause risks must be taken. This idea is shown in the scenes when she…

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…

south, and 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…

The question is do you think that it is important Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar were part of the underground comic scene and for years no one knew of the two of them. For me personally I think they were very important because now they're getting a lot of attention for their works. If that doesn't make someone believe that there important then I don't know what can . For their styles are similar they oddly complement one another and honestly they make a good team depending on how you think about…

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…

escaped 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…

Have you ever heard of the name Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman had many character traits some of them are independent, brave, and determined. Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciden to escape from slavery. She lead 300 more slaves to freedom. When she was leading the slaves she had to go through woods quietly without getting caught. Harriet Tubman was independent, because she went north to south to free slaves on her plantation she would work on. She had to do that…