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The Underground Railroad for kids : from slavery to freedom with 21 activities / Mary Kay Carson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, (c)2005.Description: 164 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781556525544
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E450 .U534 2005
  • E450
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
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 -- Civil War in your state -- Wartime wrappings -- Juneteenth.
Subject: Provides twenty-one activities that kids can do to learn about the Underground Railroad.
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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 -- Civil War in your state -- Wartime wrappings -- Juneteenth.

Provides twenty-one activities that kids can do to learn about the Underground Railroad.

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