Underground Operations

real-world hero. Real world heroes save people and help others no matter what the consequences are. Harriet Tubman was an African American slave who escaped and went on to help her fellow slaves' escape with her through the underground railroad. Although the underground railroad was just a system of…

the journey, in which then she told them, “You'll be free or die,” because if they returned to the plantation, the slave-owners would gather more information about the Underground…

Words have incredible power. Harriet Beecher Stowe strung together thousands of words to create a piece of literature that would rock the nation. In the 1800s, slavery was expanding all over the nation, primarily in the South. Although there were several statutes and laws to regulate the activity of slavery, it was still trapping thousands of people in inhumane circumstances. Needless to say, Harriet Beecher Stowe would soon shed some light on the topic and reveal the human costs of slavery.…

The Underground Railroad was a network of people during the 19th century who aided in the escape of enslaved African Americans from the south safely make their way to the northern states or Canada. It consisted of predominantly free slaves, abolitionists, and many whites. Slaves were smuggled into the northern states either through false “free papers” to board a boat or train or by being shipped in freights. The Underground Railroad was not underground or an actual railroad, it received its name…

Harriet Tubman, the famous Underground Railroad “conductor”, escaped from slavery in the South to become the most well-known abolitionist of the 19th century. She was born in Eastern Maryland around 1820, in which she was forced to start her life as a slave. In 1849, she was able to escape from slavery in fear that she was going to be sold. Following the North Star by foot and with the help of many white abolitionists, she was able to make her way to Philadelphia where she is able to find work…

sought out Canada in the pursuit of freedom. She helped bring over 700 slaves from the United States. Even with her life at risk, she bravely put her own life at risk for the freedom of the oppressed. At the peak of her career as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, plantation owners put a bounty of $40,000 for her death. Even then, Tubman was never captured and remains one of the greatest Canadian African-American female inspirations to this…

tried to stop Harriet, for example: bounties, and the Fugitive Slave Law, but no matter what-Harriet succeeded. In her life, she was mostly supported by friends, family, and herself. There is one thing left to say, “She was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and she could say what most conductors can’t say: She never ran her ‘train’ off the track, and she never lost a passenger”…

The Underground Railroad, had many conductors to help get slaves to freedom. According to the Eastern Illinois University resources, “The Underground Railroad was a secret system developed to aid fugitive slaves on their escape to freedom”(Para 2, page 1). The Railroad, was mostly led by free black northerners, helping the enslaved blacks from the south to escape their petrifying lives and become free. William Still, who was a black abolitionist and a successful writer. Blacks knowing how to…

exposed her passengers to more risk than already presented, therefore they only traveled by proper routes during the night, took turns having passengers on lookout when resting, and only getting supplies from houses confirmed to be safe by the Underground Railroad. However, when going back into slave states by herself, Tubman would travel during the daytime by herself and created many disguises for herself should she come across previous slaveholders or anyone else that could…

“Harriet Tubman: Dancing on the Freedom Trail” Standards: Social Studies Standard 4-6, Indicator 4-6.2: Explain the contributions of abolitionists to the mounting tensions between the North and South over slavery, including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown. Grade 4 Dance Standards 3: Understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning. Objectives: 1. The student will be able to (TSWBA) explain and…