Underground Railroad

Sunday was Harriet Tubman Day.  She was one of the most famous conductors of the Underground  Railroad.

Part 1:  Use this link to choose the 5 most interesting facts to you about the Underground Railroad.

Part 2:  Use this link to write 4 great sentences about who Harriet Tubman was and why she was important.

The book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was apparently based on the life of Josiah Henson.
Professional bounty hunters stalked them so that they could return the slaves back to the plantation owners. Many African-Americans died while trying to escape to freedom.
During the day, they would stay in safe houses. Often people who ran the safe houses would hang a lit lantern outside their homes letting the fugitives know their house was “safe.”
During the seventeenth century, Africans were brought to the United States to work as slaves.
Plantation owners used slaves to work their farms.