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Your mother might have heard from other slaves that an "underground railroad" could help you get north to the free states of the United States and to Canada where you can live free. To get started, you would need to find your way in secret to the first stop, a house off the plantation. ... The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue...
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www.cc.oberlin.edu/~EOG/OYTT/ch7.html
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Her Role in the Underground Railroad ... Yet, in point of courage, shrewdness and disinterested exertions to rescue her fellow-men, by making personal visits to Maryland among the slaves, she was without her equal.
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www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
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By the middle of the 19th century it was estimated that over 50,000 slaves had escaped from the South using the underground railroad. Plantation owners became concerned at the large number of slaves escaping to the ... (5) William Still describing the rescue of Anna Maria Weems in his book The Underground Railroad (1870)
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www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASunderground.htm
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASunderground.htm
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The Wellington-Oberlin Slave Rescue of 1858 ... LorainCounty proudly served as one of the final stops along the Underground Railroad. Slaves traveling to Canada often passed through this area until about 1861, following Frederick Douglass's advice to follow the North Star to freedom in Canada.
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www.visitloraincounty.com/railroad
www.visitloraincounty.com/railroad
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2. Students will learn the Underground Railroad comprised of people in the United States and Canada who assisted slaves in escaping to freedom. 3. Students will read the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and learn how it affected the operation of the;
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www.motopera.org/mg_ed/educational/MS_LP_B.pdf
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Become a member of an anti-slavery organization like the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ... Join Central Ohio Rescue and Restore, a Rescue and Restore Coalition addressing contemporary slavery/human trafficking cased in Columbus, Ohio. Email for more information. ... Free the Slaves...
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www.freedomcenter.org/slavery-today/take-action/
www.freedomcenter.org/slavery-today/take-action/
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The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html
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Runaway slaves relied on knowledge of geography, clever disguises, tips from Conductors and their own "motherwit" to evade hunters and catchers. Scholars continue to debate the means fugitives used to navigate their way.
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www.whispersofangels.com/secrets.html
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You are a slave in Maryland in the 1800s. Can you escape? Learn what challenges slaves faced in National Geographic's Underground Railroad adventure. Get information, pictures, photographs, biographies, resources, and more.
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www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
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