A narrow escape and a secret network
Passengers : fleeing a life of bondage
Print adinkra cloth
Homemade hoecakes
Story-telling griots
Rubber band banjo
Ticket agents and railroad operators : fighting for abolition and aiding runaways
Silver Seminole gorgets
Create an antislavery handbill
Write and decode underground railroad messages
Singing to freedom
Conductors : transporting illegal cargo
Candle in a cup
Pack up and go
Visit an underground railroad station
Navigate by the North Star
Follow the drinking gourd
Stationmasters : hiding passengers from slave catchers
Get lost in disguise
Design a hiding place
Shake on it
Make a paper quilt block
Light a lantern
Brakemen : making a life in freedom
Canada today
End of the line : war, emancipation, and equality
War in your state
Wartime wrappings
Celebrate Juneteenth.
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The Underground Railroad for kids : from slavery to freedom with 21 activities by Mary Kay Carson. ISBN 1556525540. Published by Chicago Review in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
