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

2.
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

3. Terms
Conductors
Stations
Stockholders
Agents
passengers

4. Symbols Slaves were uneducated and illiterate
Drinking gourd song & constellation
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.

5. 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

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

7. Link to Goodridge home in York