You
are a slave.
Your
body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in
1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make
him rich. You have never tasted freedom.
You never expect to.
And yet . . . your soul lights
up when you hear whispers of attempted escape.
Freedom means
a hard, dangerous trek.
Do you try it? http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
The above excerpt is from the National Geographics' Underground
Railroad section of their website. The students at the Roanoke
Avenue School have a new understanding of how the slaves the site
talks about felt as they made their way to freedom via the Underground
Railroad. |
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| After their studies of the Revolutionary
War, the fourth graders at Roanoke studied the origins of the
Underground Railroad. As part of their studies, the fourth grade
teachers, under the leadership Mr. Joe Johnson, had their students
engage in a Mock Underground Railroad.
Pictured above (with the lantern and the stick) is a slaveholder
pursuing her runaway slaves |
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