Created by Allison Duquaine and Desirae Bombay-Klyce

 Slavery was a horrible thing. Being a slave meant you were a black person who didn’t get paid, didn’t get a lot of food, and couldn’t get married. They did not have any rights or freedoms. Slavery started around 1619 and ended in The Underground Railroad was started so slaves could escape. Slaves escaped to a better life and freedom.

 1849-Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery  The Underground Railroad was most active from  1864-The Underground Railroad ended

 Harriet Tubman escaped from a plantation in Maryland  The Underground Railroad went North to freedom  The Underground Railroad went from the American south to Canada

 Over 100,000 slaves made it to freedom on the Underground Railroad  Harriet Tubman “Moses” was the most famous conductor  Blacks, whites, men, women, slave states, free states, and Quakers helped on the Underground Railroad

 To escape slavery  To end slavery

 Moses was born in 1820  Moses worked as a slave from age 6 to 16  Moses died in 1913

 Slaves were free  The Civil War started