Nicholette WorgsChristina SantiagoThea De Guzman

Escaping Slavery

What did Harriet Tubman contributed to slavery?

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Where did it begin? It existed in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and ChinaSlaves were used for hard work, household servantry, military

respite and even ritual human sacrifices.

British Colonization in AmericaBrought 20 enslaved Africans into America by a Dutch shipBrought in for the new colonization known as the Virginia

Colony in Jamestown

Slavery in AmericaAmerica needed slavery to work on:

Tobacco, sugar, rice, cotton plantations…etcAbout 500,000 enslaved Africans were transferred to America

Origin of Slavery

Missouri Compromise 1850James Tallamage proposed

the prohibition of slaves for MissouriSlaves was prohibited North

of latitude 36°30‘Compromise: reflected the

growing opposition between slave and free states

North- against slaverySouth- for slavery due to the

need of enslavement for their plantations

Division of the North and South

Slaves severely punishedRunaways were sold to the SouthHarder for slaves because of distance from the

NorthOther times, slaves were beaten and do

extremely hard workNot usually killed because they were valuable

property.People who help were fined or imprisoned

What happen to slaves who escape and were captured again?

Illustrated by William W. Brown, this is a picture of a slave who is hiding in a tree

so that he won't be captured and down below is

the owner, horse and bloodhound chasing after

him.

Slavery was cruelUnhappy life and harsh treatment

Nothing to eatNo warm clothesA decent place to liveBeatened and tortured

Find family membersReconnect with family sold away from themNot likely that slaves find their familiesGave up and return to their plantation owners

Wanted freedom and live their own lifeMake their own moneyLive where they choseLive with their family

Why Slaves Escape

Slaves were punished for:Resisting slaveryUsing their own languageNot working hard enoughStealingMurdering WhitesAttempting to runaway

How were they punished? Punishment is based on how

big the crime was…They were often put into

shackles or contraptions or chained to the grounds

Owners used slave whip and chains, force to walk in treadmills and even hanged..

Continue… Punishment

This is Thomas Johnson holding the slave whip and chains used to torture and punish slaves.

"there arose in some an irrepressible desire

for freedom which no danger or power could

restrain, no hardship deterred, and no

bloodhound could alarm. This desire haunted

them night and day; they talked about it to

each other in confidence; they knew that the

system which bound them was as unjust as it

was cruel, and that they ought to strive, as a

duty to themselves and their children, to

escape from it". From Walter Hawkins point of view, he is stating that slaves wanted to runaway and how confident they were therefore they could not stop talking about it.

Escaping

Extraordinary disguises

• Henry “Box” Brown mailed himself to freedom, traveling to Philadelphia in a wooden cratedisguised as cargo.• He was in the box for 26 hours• Other runaways started to follow this idea.

• William and Ellen Craft, from Macon, Georgia, disguised themselves as slave and a master • Ellen Craft was able to pass for white. • She dressed as an elderly man with an ailment which covered her feminine features• William Craft played a servant• They successfully escape to Boston

Harriet Tubman made 19 trips to the South to help 300+ slaves escape to the North.

80-90% of runaways were male and usually in their mid-twenties.

Thomas Garrett, a famous white man who conducted the Underground Railroad, help 2,700 slaves escape.

William Still, who is referred as the “Father of the Underground Railroad” recorded detailed information about 649 escaped slaves in his journal which is now a book called “The Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c”

Did You Know?

Who was she?Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland

in the year of 1822 Was the 11th child of Harriet Green and Benjamin

RossShe was denied to receive education because slave

owners did not want their slaves to be literate. She risked her own life to fight for freedom

and justice. She led about 19 escape missions to save slaves.She was known as “Moses”She took the runaways through the Underground

Railroad which was a network that took runaways from South to the free states up North. There was about 50,000 slaves that escaped through

the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

These are pictures taken from a farm house in Chester County by the owner who believes that it may have been markings that relates to the Underground Railroad activities.

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