The Underground Railroad for kids : from slavery to freedom with 21 activities
Summary
Provides twenty-one activities that kids can do to learn about the Underground Railroad. Full description
- 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.