What do you know about it? Underground Railroad What do you know about it?

1810-1850 An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves to escape to free states & Canada. Abolitionists helped slaves to destination Traveled mainly on foot or by wagon

Terms Conductors Stations Stockholders Agents passengers

Symbols Slaves were uneducated and illiterate Drinking gourd song & constellation http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/family_learning_nook/Title_Units/UnderGround/ur_flashgames/gourd_song_final.html provided slaves with coded directions for an Underground Railroad escape route north from Alabama & Mississippi. It instructs escapees to travel up the Tombigbee River, cross over to the Tennessee River, and follow it to the Ohio River where they could cross to freedom in the North.

Symbols Quilts Quilts were used to signal & direct slaves to escape routes & assistance 10 quilt patterns Placed one at a time on a fence Signal to prepare to escape and give direction

Lantern in the window Of a house was a sign of a “safe house” for food & shelter.

Link to Goodridge home in York http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.millersville.edu/~ugrr/yorkugrr/DSC00011.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.millersville.edu/~ugrr/yorkugrr/goodridge.htm&usg=__PDqxHqIAsPaN6cT_kfMJfaw0EaY=&h=480&w=640&sz=162&hl=en&start=75&tbnid=P4_Hiwn1OCXI1M:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dunderground%2Brailroad%2Bhiding%2Bplaces%26start%3D60%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN