The Underground Railroad for kids from slavery to freedom with 21 activities

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

Main Author:	Carson, Mary Kay.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c2005.
Subjects:	Underground railroad > Juvenile nonfiction. Underground Railroad > Study and teaching > Activity programs > Juvenile nonfiction. Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile nonfiction. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile nonfiction.

Table of Contents:

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.