The Underground Railway

By Logan Malough Block A SS 10 Mr. Chan

What was the underground railwayThe underground

railway was the network of secret routes and safe houses that black Americans used to escape slavery. It was started in the late 1800s.

Slavery of black AmericansThe underground

railway was risky because white Americans were on the search for them. If the black Americans get caught, escaped slaves were severely punished.

Being HomesickIn the early years, some black immigrants

remembered their lives before slavery and wanted to see their homelands again. But their letters were denied by the Americans and they never get the chance to go home.

The ChurchesQuaker and

Methodist churches support the fugitives who usually travelled hundreds of kilometers on foot.

Josiah HensonJosiah Henson was a

slave in Charles county Maryland who escaped to upper Canada. When he was a boy, his father was a slave.

Richard PierpointRichard Pierpoint

was a slave since he was captured and sold at age 16. He survived crossing the Atlantic and was sold to someone named Pierpoint.

James DouglasSir James Douglas

was a British colonial governor in Vancouver island who invited some black colonists to settle with him.

Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman was

an African American abolitionist and union spy during the civil war. She was also a black activist who helped hundreds of slaves escape through the railway.

And that’s my project.