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On the Plantation: Life as Slave

To start, listen to the story of the runaway slave, then click around the scene to learn more about life on a Southern plantation, read “Growing Up in Slavery” to meet Fannie Moore and after you’ve explored these resources ,answer these questions.

1. What did it mean to be a slave?you worked in the fileds and lived in a shake.you had little rights in the world back then.   What were some of the basic rights that slaves did not have?they could not vote they could not look at a white woman. they coul not run away from their master.

2. Why did people own slaves in the United States in the 1800s? In the south the crops were on fire people need corn toobaco and other crops. the slaves were useed to pick  them.

3. When did slavery begin in the United States? it was in the 1500 Where did the first slaves come from slaves came from what part of africa?4. Describe the life of a slave on a Southern plantation.  they had a bad life they had to work very erly and was wiped for being late and for trying to run away.Where did slaves live? they lived on planetations were their master lived but the slaves lived in a shack.What kinds of work did they do? 

they worked in the fileds and some of them worked in their masters home when they are in the fileds the pick cotten and other chrops . the ones who worked in the masters home they washed dishes and cleand around their home.

How were they punished?the way that slaves were punished was that they were wiped with a wip that had a diffrent types of things on it .

5. What do you think were some of the hardest things about being a slave?

well waking up in the morning and

having to be called a nigga and being treated bad

and being wiped for nothing. 

Escape! The Underground Railroad

Listen to the story of the runaway slave, then click around the scene to learn more about how slaves made their escapes and found their way. After you’ve explored these resources, answer these questions.

1. Why did some enslaved African Americans try to escape from their owners? becuse they heard that in the north slaves were free and not slaves . Why was this such a dangerous act? becuse if you were cought you would be wiped almost to death.

2. How did most slaves travel when they escaped?
After the lights went out in the big house, I slipped out of my bed, pretending to use the necessary. Years ago an old field hand told me about a place called Canada, where Negro men can live free. All I know for sure about Canada is that it’s north, so I find the North Star and start running. How did they find their way? witth the north star

3. What were some of the worst dangers and challenges that runaway slaves faced?the face white people try make them or the kidnape the bring them to the south.

4. How did runaways try to avoid getting caught? they run in the woods.What happened if they were caught?they would bring them to their mater and they wipe them.

5. What was the Underground Railroad? The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause. ...
Who were the “passengers” and the “conductors”? william still  and harriet  tubmen and willam loyde garrison

6. Why did the Underground Railroad have to be so secretive? becuse their was a law that people could not help slaves that had a master. What are some ways that people on the Underground Railroad kept their work – and runaway slaves – hidden they had diffrent types of code and signals that they can follow.

Reaching Safety: Heroes for the Cause

To start, listen to the story of the runaway slave, then click around the scene to learn how some abolitionists helped fugitives reach freedom. Try the “Harriet Tubman Web Quest,” to learn about the life of this brave woman who risked her life to guide hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom.

1. Were runaway slaves free once they reached the Northern states?some times they are not some white people kidnap the slaves and bring them back for money.2. Who were the abolitionists? How did they spread their message?

3. What are some ways that abolitionists helped runaways on the Underground Railroad? hey made laws in the distent u.s.

4. Did all abolitionists support the UnRailroad? Why or why not? they did not becuse they did not have any one to pick the chrops.

Have you explored all the resources in “Almost Free: Life in the North”? To start, listen to the

story of the runaway slave, then click around the scene to discover what life was like for fugitives in the North.  See “Compare Two Worlds: The North vs. South,” for interactive maps that identify important differences between the North and South before the Civil War. After you’ve explored these resources, answer these questions.

1. What are some of the different places that slaves settled in the North?  some went to washonton to have a better life.Why did many runaways go to Canada? they may have though that the u.s. was no for them.

2. What were some of the challenges the newcomers faced as they started their new lives?discrminaction and diffrent type of abuse and other things.

3. What were three major differences between the North and the South before the Civil War? slave were freed and the white people could not do any thing to stop it 

4. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? What impact did it have?

5. Why did so many African Americans fight in the Civil War on the side of the Union?

6. What was one important outcome of the Civil War?