Carson, Mary Kay,

The Underground Railroad for kids : from slavery to freedom with 21 activities / Mary Kay Carson. - Chicago : Chicago Review Press, (c)2005. - 164 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.



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.



9781556525544

2004002466

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013069722 Uk


Underground Railroad--Study and teaching--Activity programs--Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves--History--United States--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century--Juvenile literature.

E450 / .U534 2005 E450