The conductors of the Underground Railroad knew how to take advantage of all possible angles. The American Anti-Slavery Society, Philadelphia (1833).William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator (1831).Vestal and Levi Coffin initiate escape route for slaves (1820).Students might also research people and key phrases around these critical years: To begin this inquiry lesson, students can construct a timeline from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress’s Chronicling America newspaper sources and the Digital Public Library of America.
These vocabulary terms and others- such as personal liberty laws, redemption, and manumission- can be found on the " Language of Slavery” page hosted by the National Park Service.
Similarly a person who kept slaves as property is a “slave holder” and not a “slave master” or “slave owner,” since the latter two terms connote a relationship of superiority over other human beings. Refer to this list of historic Underground Railway locations to see if one is in your area.Īccording to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, the preferred term for an enslaved person running away from bondage toward freedom is a “freedom-seeker.” The terms “fugitive,” “escapee,” or “runaway” all suggest that the person fleeing forced labor was somehow at fault for seeking liberation. While it was harder to for slaves to flee from the most southern states-like Alabama and Mississippi-because they were surrounded by other slave-holding states, nearly every state had some Underground Railroad activity. The facilitators, or conductors, of the Underground Railroad, typically comprised free black persons in the North, formerly escaped slaves, and abolitionists of all backgrounds, such as Thaddeus Stevens, William Still, Thomas Garrett, Isaac Hopper, John Brown, Elijah Anderson, Levi Coffin, and, of course, Harriet Tubman.
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