Slavery in America

Unit Plan by : Caitlin Perry

Slavery

•What do you know about slavery already?

Underground Railroad• Route: -People who helped only knew what they were supposed to do not the whole route. -Spots where the runaways could sleep and eat were given the code names

“stations” and “depots” which were held by “station masters”.-“Conductors” who ultimately moved the runaways from station to station. - Moved only at night, once at the next house there was a note sent on to the next

“station”.- Boats and trains were also used.

• Travel conditions:- Traveled by foot and wagon mostly.- Due to the risk of discovery, information about routes and safe havens was passed

along by word of mouth.

• Terminology: - People who helped slaves find the railroad were “agents.”- Guides were known as “conductors”.- Hiding places were “stations”.- “Station masters” hid the slaves in their homes- Escaped slaves were referred to as “passengers” or “cargo.”

People

• Harriet Tubman • Fredrick

Douglass• Abraham

Lincoln • Nat Turner • Henry “Box”

Brown• Mary Brown

• John Quincy Adams

• John Brown• William Lloyd

Garrison• Harriet Beecher

Stowe• Charles Sumner• William Still

Events and Issues• Nat Turner Rebellion• Fugitive Slave Law• Harper’s Ferry• Civil War• 13th Amendment• Reconstruction Plans and

Acts• Kansas-Nebraska Act• Emancipation Proclamation• 14th Amendment• Civil Rights (1875)• Black Codes• Ku Klux Klan• Freemen’s Bureau

Slaves Systems

• African Slave Trade

• Plantation System

• Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco Plantations

• Slave Ownership

• Slave Markets

• Slave Branding

Life

• House Slaves• Food and

Clothes• Education• Punishment• Marriage• Songs• Child bearing

Free States

• New Jersey• Pennsylvania• Connecticut• Massachusetts• New Hampshire• New York• Rhode Island• Vermont• Ohio

• Indiana• Illinois• Maine• Michigan• Lowa• Wisconsin• California• Minnesota• Oregon• Kansas