Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad

Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad


Nat Turner	Harriet Tubman	Frederick Douglass	William Lloyd Garrison	William Wells Brown	Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society Medallion

Forms of Rebellion

1831 Nat Turner’s rebellion

Southhampton, Virginia

36 hour rebellion of slaves led by Nat Turner

Underground Railroad

Purpose was to undermine slavery by smuggling fugitives to the North

Abolitionism

A movement organizing against the institution of slavery. Abolitionists did not necessarily believe in the equality of Black and White.

William Lloyd Garrison

Estimated 100,000 fled from slavery

Two Important routes

1. North through Kentucky into Ohio

2. Along the eastern seaboard into Canada

Harriet Tubman led at least three hundred people. Mostly from the eastern shore of Maryland.

Mason-Dixon Line surveyor’s line that delineated the border of Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Fugitive Slave Law

Vigilance Committees

Story of William Parker

Links about the Underground Railroad

http://www.nps.gov/boaf/urrmap~1.htm