1. How did slaves rebel against their situation?
Key Words
Objectives:
Describe the Underground Railroad and consider its use and success in helping slaves run away
Evaluate different ways of rebelling against your owner
Evaluate the impact of slave rebellions on the slave trade

2. Starter – Complete the sheet
Complete the slave resistance scenario sheet you have been given with as much detail as possible.
Do not forget to use ideas from your last lesson 

3. What kind of rebellion can you see happening here?

4. Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses.
The people who helped slaves escape were called conductors or engineers.
The places along the escape route were called "stations.“
Sometimes escaping slaves were called "passengers."
Sometimes they were called "cargo" or "goods."

5. What kinds of people worked the Underground Railroad?
Free blacks, whites, and even some slaves worked as conductors to help slaves escape.
Everybody who worked with the Underground Railroad took a big risk. If they were caught, they risked a serious punishment, even death.

6. Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman the Underground Railroad’s most famous “conductor”
Harriet was enslaved on the Brodess plantation in Eastern Maryland.
She navigated her way through the woods at night, found shelter and helped free Blacks.
She reached freedom in Philadelphia.
Harriet Tubman freed about 300 slaves and its been said that she never lost a single passenger.

7. What sort of things did the Underground Railroad volunteers do?
Men and women who operated Underground Railroad stations hid slaves in their homes, shops, churches, schools, and barns.
Conductors drove slaves hidden in wagons or coaches to the next station.
Conductors led slaves through woods and fields on foot until they reached a safe house.
Slaves were put on boats that sailed north to freedom, or they were put on trains heading north.

8. Hide outs
To the left, fugitives hid in the secret compartment of the cupboard in this Gettysburg, Pennsylvania house.
Below are other secret hideouts where fugitives would escape to.
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9. Disguises
Slaves sometimes wore disguises to avoid being recognized and returned to slavery.
Henry “Box” Brown “mailed” himself to freedom, travelling to Philadelphia in a wooden crate disguised as “cargo.”

10. Transportation
Sometimes fugitives would be transported from one station to another in false-bottom wagons.
Harriet Tubman transported her parents from Maryland to Delaware using one of these wagons.

11. In pairs!
Using the underground railroad code sheets try to work out the coded messages Good luck!

12. Plan your own rebellion
In groups of 3 or 4 you need to plan your own rebellion and turn it into a drama which you will then perform to the whole class.
This can be a violent or non violent rebellion
You can base it on fact or fiction
You must include different characters and learn your script
You will be awarded marks for performance and for your storyline
GOOD LUCK

13. Its time to perform your dramas

14. Discussion – How do you think the white slave owners felt about rebellious slaves and rebellions?
Could show later section of roots with the NAT TURNER fear.

15. You must create your own comic strip YOU CAN
Complete by hand or on computer
Choose a topic you have studied on slavery so far to complete the comic on
YOU MUST
Have a storyline and characters
Include colourful images