The Underground
Railroad may be defined as the organized effort to assist runaway slaves
in their dash for freedom. Since slipping away from one's master was a
hazardous step, most runaways required help. The underground railroad was
the popular name for the process of receiving these fugitives, hiding them
overnight and then conducting them to the next station en route to
freedom. In addition to helping runaways, this movement had a decidedly
disturbing effect on slavery, making such property all the more risky.
Wilbur H. Siebert, the foremost scholarly authority on the underground
railroad, came to the conclusion that it was "one of the greatest forces
which brought on the Civil War, and thus destroyed slavery." - Benjamin
Quarles
Anti-Slavery Campaign -
1997 A group of American Human Rights activists is urging the
Clinton Administration to make total eradication of slavery a foreign policy
priority. They are focusing attention on countries like Sudan and Maurktania,
where they say slavery lingers on -- despite advances of Democracy
throughout the world.
Frederick Douglass
Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D.
1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States,
containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of
January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated
part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United
States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
Narrative Of The
Life Of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He
was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or
1818.
The Fugitive Slave Act Of
1850 An Act to amend, and supplementary to the Act entitled "An
Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of
their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and
ninety-three.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
(1800-1831) And about this time I had a vision - and I saw white
spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened
... Nat Turner
The History of John
Brown After such bloody encounters as Pottawamie Creek in Kansas,
John Brown began to amass arms and make battle plans in earnest for a
full-fledged invasion of the South.
Harpers Ferry National
Historical Park It was a precursor to the modern civil rights
movement, but a meeting of the Niagara Movement 98 years ago is little
remembered today, according to John Powell, a park ranger at Harpers Ferry
National Historical Park.
Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a
Woman? No formal record of the speech exists, but Frances Gage, an
abolitionist and president of the Convention, recounted Truth's words.
Levi Coffin: President of the Underground Railroad ... with
the help of his devoted wife, Catharine, Coffin managed over the next twenty
years to offer a safe haven to thousands of African Americans fleeing slavery's
evils on the "Underground Railroad."
William Garrison, "The Governing
Passion of My Soul," Occasion: Speech given at Charleston, South
Carolina, only a month after Sherman's march through the state and five days
after Lee had surrendered at Appomattox. It happens that Lincoln was shot on the
day of the speech and died the following day.
An Address to the Colored
People An address delivered to the colored people at Galesburg,
Illinois, 1867. - By Robert G. Ingersoll
Slave
Narratives From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300
former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and
journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former
slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War,
provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and
on small farms
Slave 'Railroad' Buffs
Question Museum Site The lunch crowd was heedless of the runaway slave
tunnels beneath the Unionville Tavern, where Debra Laveck poked around, trying
to rediscover an old Underground Railroad crawlway to a cemetery across the
road.
Abolitionist
Movement From the 1830s until 1870, the abolitionist
movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the
ending of racial segregation and discrimination.
A Nation Divided Seminole rift more than a black-and-white issue.
Amazing Grace: Whitewashing the History of Abolition
"Until Haiti struck for freedom, the conscience of the Christian world slept profoundly over slavery. Until she spoke no Christian nation had given to the world an organized effort to abolish slavery..... Until she spoke, the slave trade was sanctioned by all the Christian nations of the world, and our land of liberty and light included."
The Irish Slaves That Time Forgot
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies.
Who Kept Slavery In America a Secret In The 2Oth Century?
But what if--just if--America's grips on slavery never loosen? What if slavery continued to be reality for African Americans in sixteen states and sixteen counties throughout Mississippi, from Kosciusko, MS the childhood hometown of Oprah Winfrey to the hometown of Morgan Freeman, Clarksdale, MS down to the lonely roads of Money, MS where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955.
John W. Fields, Age 89
"In most of us colored folks was the great desire to [be] able to read and write. We took advantage of every opportunity to educate ourselves. The greater part of the plantation owners were very harsh if we were caught trying to learn or write. It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. We were never allowed to go to town and it was not until after I ran away that I knew that they sold anything but slaves, tobacco, and wiskey. Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then? An offender guilty of this crime was subjected to very harsh punishment." Born in Slavery
Born in 1797, and sold three times by the time she
was 13 (and beaten many more times), a tall young slave girl named Isabella
grew in her determination to fight the evils of slavery and speak for human
rights. At the age of 46, having been a free woman for 17 years, Isabella woke
from a dream telling her she must travel the country, conveying to people what
it meant to be a slave. On that day, Isabella renamed herself.
"It was as though the life she'd known up till then belonged to someone
else. A new one was beginning. The old life had become a tale to tell, a story
to bring freedom to others. Her old name belonged to her old life. From that
day on, she was never called Isabella again. Her name was Sojourner Truth."
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The Underground Railroad may be defined as the organized effort to assist runaway slaves in their dash for freedom. Since slipping away from one's master was a hazardous step, most runaways required help. The underground railroad was the popular name for the process of receiving these fugitives, hiding them overnight and then conducting them to the next station en route to freedom. In addition to helping runaways, this movement had a decidedly disturbing effect on slavery, making such property all the more risky. Wilbur H. Siebert, the foremost scholarly authority on the underground railroad, came to the conclusion that it was "one of the greatest forces which brought on the Civil War, and thus destroyed slavery." - Benjamin Quarles
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