SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Freedom Trail
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Trail of Tears
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Underground Railroad
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Drinking Gourd
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person.
Detailed explanation-3: -The goal of most fugitive slaves was Canada, but some found freedom in Mexico and on the islands in the Caribbean Sea. After the Civil War, many returned to the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Our Headlines and Heroes blog takes a look at Harriet Tubman as the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. Tubman and those she helped escape from slavery headed north to freedom, sometimes across the border to Canada.
Detailed explanation-5: -Most often they traveled by land on foot, horse, or wagon under the protection of darkness. Drivers concealed self-liberators in false compartments built into their wagons, or hid them under loads of produce. Sometimes, fleeing slaves traveled by train.