Underground Railroad

What was the Underground railroad? When I was a kid I had always thought they were well Underground Railroads. Now, it sounds pretty ridiculous but I was a young and didn’t know better. However I now know that they actually weren’t underground railroads at all. They are basically a network of safe houses and people who contributed to the escape of slaves to the north colonies or to Canada. The numbers of escapees a year where small, only about 1000 slaves a year, but over the years it would add…

The Underground Railroad documentary, directed by Jeff Lengyel for the History Channel, uncovered many factoids about an important period of United States history from the 17th Century thru to the Emancipation Proclamation which has been misinterpreted for decades. This misinterpretation has been fostered by history text books, teachers, lecturers and the modern day cinema. It is ironic that the same medium used to produce these misconceptions will be same medium by which to correct them.…

state of Ohio (Haskins 1). David’s master concluded that Tice had escaped on and “underground railroad.” The story spread about the escaped slave who had gained his freedom on an “underground railroad” (Haskins 2). The Underground Railroad was not literally a railroad that was underground; the term fit the way many slaves in the South made their way to the Free states of the North (Haskins 2). The term “underground railroad” first appeared in prints in the 1840’s. The fugitive slaves were…

The Pathway to Freedom The Underground Railroad was not actually a railroad, nor was it underground. The system received its name because its functions had to be carried out in secret using disguise and darkness ("Underground Railroad"). Also, the operation and its members used railway terms to describe how it worked. The term “routes” was lines, stopping places were “stations”, those who guided the slaves were “conductors”, charges in the system were known as “packages” or “freight”, and homes…

The Underground Railroad is thought to of begun around the late 18th century. The Underground Railroad was actually not underground nor was it a railroad. It was a vast network of people helping convict slaves escape to the “promise land,” or Canada. Consisting of many individuals, some whites but predominately black, aided these slaves through the networks (history.com). George Washington, a slave owner, complained that one of his runaway slaves was helped by a “society of Quakers, formed for…

The Underground Railroad was a chain of safe houses during the 1900’s for slaves trying to escape to Canada for freedom from their masters. Without the abolitionists hard work the Underground Railroad might have not been a success. Harriet Tubman had helped the Underground Railroads cause by saving slaves and bringing them to the free states. Thomas Garrett had hid runaway slaves and contacted William Still to tell him that new slaves would arrive. William Still had kept runaway slaves in his…

Tubman, she led hundreds of people safely away from slavery. Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland.On the month of March, in the year of 1822. She had very little education she wasn’t aloud to have been educated. Her job was to show slaves the underground railroad so they could be free. Somethings to know about Harriet. Harriet earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom. In all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." Just before…

Freedom Quilts Are the Freedom Quilts real? Two historians say African American slaves may of used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named wagon wheel, tumbling blocks, and bear paws appear to have contained secret messages that helped direct slaves to freedom. The code "was a way to say something to a person in the presence of many others without the others knowing," "It was a way of giving direction without saying, 'Go northwest.'" The seamstress would…

The Impact of The Underground Railroad Imagine waking up at 4am every morning and not being able to close your eyes until midnight. You must get up, get loaded on a truck, and work all day. It doesn’t matter if you are 10 years old or 60 years old. There are jobs for everyone. The food you get makes you wanna throw up, but you eat it anyway because if you don’t, you will die. The beds, if you get one, are made of hard poles and a sheet. This is the life of a slave back in the 1800’s unless…

this out in my mind: There was two thing I had a right liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive”(Harriet Tubman: Quote...). Harriet Tubman is a hero because of her involvement with the underground railroad and her slave life. When Araminta was about 5 or 6 when she began working as a house servant. From a very young age she was determined to gain her freedom. She spent little time living with Brodess, he often hired her out temporary…