VERY dangerous for both the “workers” and the runaways.īlacks Whites Southerners Northerners Farmers City dwellers Men Women Children Former slaves Harriet Tubman with escaped slaves at an Underground Rail Road station.Ħ Harriet Tubman Born into slavery in MarylandĮscaped to Philadelphia on the Underground Railroad Devoted freedom to helping other slaves escape Estimated that she assisted around 300 slaves in nearly 20 tripsħ Why run? Slaves ran when they learned they’d be sold to the deep South. Fugitives traveled by foot, horseback, horse-drawn cart, train, and boat. Secret network of safe houses, which provided cover to runaway slaves as they traveled northward. Harriet Tubman begins her work with the Underground Railroad. Illegal to help an escaped slave and fugitives may be returned from state to state. 1808- Abolishes trade in slaves from Africa. Owners “property” 1714- South Carolina orders death penalty for runaway slaves.ġ793- Fugitive Slave Law passed- slave owners may seize fugitives in any state. Indentured servants can buy their freedom after specified period of time. Some are indentured servants and some are slaves. St Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. This fictionalized account of her extraordinary life is ideal for students, teachers, and parents hungry for interesting and informative reading in African-American history and the Underground Railroad.Presentation on theme: "Stealing Freedom By Elisa Carbone."- Presentation transcript: Until she was a teenager, Ann Maria Weems lived in the mid-1800s near the author's home in Maryland.
A white man risks his life for Ann, cuts her hair short, dresses her like a boy, and launches her on her journey on the Underground Railroad to Canada, her family, and finally to freedom. Separated from her family by her master and shipped off as a housemaid, Ann learns something about independence and about love before the opportunity for escape arrives. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and her protective and loving parents are everything. Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders-but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have.
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