HISTORICAL BACKGROUND CAST OF CHARACTERS ACT 1 ACT 2 EVENT TIMELINE Consider This Learn More Index About the Author 4 8 10 20 30 31 31 32 32 TABLE of CONTENTS
Slaves were being bought and sold in the United States The government was letting it happen People were taken from Africa They were forced to work on plantations in the South Many people thought this was wrong Abolitionists were against slavery They wanted to free the slaves Slaves escaped They ran away from the slave states in the South They ran to the free states in the North They ran to Canada Some ran to Mexico The Underground Railroad helped fugitive slaves It was a secret system It had safe houses It had hiding places It had secret roads It was formed in the late 1700s It was most popular around the 1850s 4 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
FLASH FACT During the Civil War the Mason-Dixon line was the border between Southern and Northern states Vocabulary slaves SLAYVZ people who are stolen from their homes and forced to do work plantations plan-TAY-shuhnz big farms abolitionists ab-uh-LISH-uh-nists people who fought against slavery slave states SLAYV STAYTS states that allowed slavery free states FREE STAYTS states that did not allow slavery fugitive FYOO-jih-tiv runaway system SIS-tuhm organizational plan safe houses SAYF HOUS-iz houses that provide protection 5
