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The Underground Railroad

Conductors. A conductor is a person who helped out on the underground railroad and led slaves to freedom.Harriet Tubman was a great conductor. She was trusted by everyone. . How Harriet Tubman got involved. Harriet Tubman got involved because she was very concerned about her fellow slaves. She risked her life numerous times to lead slaves on a route to freedom..

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The Underground Railroad

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    1. The Underground Railroad By: Carolyn Hodge

    3. Conductors A conductor is a person who helped out on the underground railroad and led slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman was a great conductor. She was trusted by everyone.

    4. How Harriet Tubman got involved Harriet Tubman got involved because she was very concerned about her fellow slaves. She risked her life numerous times to lead slaves on a route to freedom.

    5. Consequences If the slaves were caught they were brutally beaten, tortured, or even lynched to serve as a example to other slaves. Slaves were sometimes sold as punishment.

    7. Routes on the underground railroad The underground railroad wasn’t really a railroad. It was a maze of pathways used by black slaves to get to freedom to safe houses to help them escape. The name originated when the runaway slaves seemed to disappear “underground” as they were being chased by slave catchers, or slave owners.

    9. “Famous Quote” “I had reasoned this out of my mind. There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death: If I could not have one, I would have the other.” “ I grew up like a neglected weed-ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

    13. Key Points The conductors led the slaves to freedom. Slaves fled to Florida and British areas, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean for safety. The underground railroad wasn’t a railroad but safe houses to help slaves escape. The transportation that they used were wagons trains and by foot. The consequences that slaves had were they were beaten or lynched. Harriet’s courage was without bounds.

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