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"... I was a stranger
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Harriet Tubman



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ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
Barefoot:
Escape on the Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities
The Underground
Railroad for Kids:
From Slavery to
Freedom with
21 Activities

Steal Away - Music of Underground Railroad
Steal Away - Music of Underground Railroad

Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
Bound for Canaan:
The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

Jubilee: The Emergence of African-american Culture
Jubilee:
The Emergence of
African-American Culture



The Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture:
LEST WE FORGET,
THE TRIUMPH OVER SLAVERY

UNESCO -2004
YEAR TO COMMEMORATE THE
STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY
& ITS ABOLITION



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The Underground Railroad Black History Posters


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Underground Railroad MapThe Underground Railroad was the name given to the multitude escape routes and assistance provided to runaway slaves as they moved northward toward free states and Canada, and sometimes to Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, prior to the American Civil War. It is estimated that as many as 100,000 “passengers” walked miles through forests and swam rivers at night to reach “depots”, with the assistance of “conductors” and “station masters”, between 1830 and 1861.



Underground Railroad Poster
Underground Railroad Poster

The Underground Railroad

Poster Text: The Underground Railroad was not a railroad, and it was not underground. It was a secret system of routes used by runaway slaves to escape the South before the Civil War. Most routes lead into the northern states and Canada, but some led to the Caribbean. Mexico, and western U.S. territories. The Underground Railroad began in the 1700s, when Quakers and abolitionists fed, hid, and guided runaways during their escape from slavery. By the 1830s, a few abolitionists communities were working together along the Underground Railroad. Because it was informal and illegal, and records were not kept, the exact number of people helped by the Underground Railroad will never be known. Most historians estimate that about 40,000 slaves used it to escape – a small but important percentage, considering there were four million slaves in the South in 1860. Free and runaway blacks did most of the work as the “conductors” and “stationmasters” who assisted escaping slaves. Slaves who reached freedom would often return to the south to liberate family or friends. Most runaways were men between the ages of 16 and 35. They traveled alone at night, using the North Star to guide them when the sky was clear. On cloudy nights, runaways used tree moss as their guide, since moss often grows on the north side of trees. Runaways also received hidden signs along the routes. Some stationmasters hung lanterns in windows of “stations” or displayed patterned quilts that actually held secret messages for runaway slaves. The underground Railroad came to an end when the Civil War began.

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Josiah Henson, Levi Coffin.
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Conductors on the Underground Railroad, Poster
Conductors on the Underground Railroad, Poster

Conductors on the Underground Railroad
Conductors on the Underground Railroad moved the runaway slaves from station to station on their journey to freedom. The conductor would sometimes pretend to be a slave to enter a plantation. Once inside, the conductor would then organize the escape and direct the runaways on the first leg of their journey north. Pictures of Dr. Bartholemew Fussell, John Hunn, Abigail Goodwin, Daniel Hughes, Robert Purvis, Samual Rhodes (sic), William Whipper, Laura Smith Haviland, William Wright, Samual D. Burris (sic), William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman, William Still, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, Moses Cheney, Elijah Pennypacker.


Harriet Tubman Poster
Harriet Tubman
Poster

Harriet Tubman
b. c. 1820; Dorchester Co., Maryland
d. 3-10-1913; Auburn, NY

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Frederick Douglass Black History Biographical Timeline Fine Art Poster
Frederick Douglass
Poster

Frederick Douglass
b. 2-14-c.1818; MD
d. 2-20-1895

"Strive earnestly to add to your knowledge. So long as you remain in ignorance, so long will you fail to command the respect of your fellow man."

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass grew up to become a leader in the antislavery and women's rights movements. He was the first black citizen to hold a high rank in the United States government.

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The Reverend Josiah Henson, Giclee Print
The Reverend Josiah Henson, Giclee Print

Josiah Henson
b. 6-15-1789; Charles Co., MD
d. 5-5-1883; Dresden, Ontario, Canada

Josiah Henson, born into slavery, became an author and minister after he escaped to Canada in 1830. He founded “Dawn Settlement” near Dresden, Ontario, that offered former slaves escaped from the U.S. the chance to start a new life.

Josiah Henson is considered the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's character Uncle Tom.

FYI- Josiah was the uncle of polar explorer Matthew Henson.


Quaker Abolitionist Levi Coffin, with His Signature Print
Quaker Abolitionist Levi Coffin, with His Signature Poster

Levi Coffin
b. 10-28-1798; Guilford Co., North Carolina
d. 9-16-1877; Avondale, Ohio

Quaker Levi Coffin and his family left North Carolina for Indiana after slave owners forced a closing of their school for teaching slaves to read the Bible. He later became known as the “President of the Underground Railroad.”

Levi Coffin and Lucretia Mott were cousins.


William Still Portrait, Secretary of the Underground Railroad, Giclee Print
William Still, Secretary of the Underground Railroad,
Giclee Print

William Still
b. November 1819 or 10-7-1821; NJ
d. 7-14-1902

• William Still was a free born black business man who aided runaway slaves. His family sheltered poet and author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper for a time.

A Bold Stroke for Freedom, from "The Underground Railroad", by William Still, 1872. Giclee Print
A Bold Stroke for Freedom, from “The Underground Railroad”,
by William Still, 1872,
Giclee Print


Abolition in the U.S., the Masthead of William Lloyd Garrison's Abolitionist Newspaper 'The Liberator', Giclee Print
Abolition in the U.S., the Masthead of William Lloyd Garrison's Abolitionist Newspaper 'The Liberator', Giclee Print

Title Page of William Still's Record of the Underground Railroad, Published in 1872, Giclee Print
Title Page William Still's
Record of the
Underground Railroad,
Published in 1872,
Giclee Print


The Separation of the Mother and Child, illustration from Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Giclee Print
The Separation of the Mother and Child, illustration from Uncle Tom's Cabin, Giclee Print

The Separation of the Mother and Child, illustration from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe posters


John Brown (1800-59), the Martyr, (Pub. by Currier & Ives, 1870), Giclee Print
John Brown,
Giclee Print

John Brown (1800-59), the Martyr, (Pub. by Currier & Ives, 1870)



Underground Railroad Map

A folk song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” gave coded directions to runaway slaves. Using the constellation pattern Ursa Major, commonly known as the Big Dipper in North America, helped fugitive slaves locate Polaris - the North Star, thus giving them a reference point in night time travels.

Frederick Douglass named his abolitionist newspaper “The North Star.”

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