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The Underground Railroad

Would YOU Help Them Escape?

Elaine Landau

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What Would YOU Do?

The Underground Railroad

Would YOU Help Them Escape?

Elaine Landau

an imprint of

Industrial Road Box Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 USA

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Enslow Elementary, an imprint of Enslow Publishers, Inc. Enslow Elementary is a registered trademark of Enslow Publishers, Inc.

Copyright 2015 by Elaine Landau

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No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without the written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Landau, Elaine. The underground railroad : would you help them escape? / by Elaine Landau.

pages cm. ( What would you do? ) Includes index. Summary: Discover the risks and rewards of the underground railroad. Readers decide what they would do, and then find out what really happened Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-7660-4225-4 Underground Railroad Juvenile literature. Fugitive slaves United States History 19th century Juvenile literature. Antislavery movements United States History 19th century Juvenile literature. I. Title.

E450. L3156 2014 7115 dc23

2013008788

Future editions: Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4644-0393-4 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4645-1216-2 Single-User PDF ISBN: 978-1-4646-1216-9 Multi-User PDF ISBN: 978-0-7660-5848-4

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Contents

Land of the Free

Finding Another Choice

What a Way to Travel!

Bold Bravery

Trusting Levi Coffin

A Conductor on the Underground Railroad

All They Needed

When Things Went Wrong

Standing Behind the Underground Railroad

An Important Reminder

Timeline

Words to Know

Learn More ( Books and Web Sites)

Index

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Who Had Slaves?

By the early 1800s, slavery was abolished in all states north of the border of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Trouble was growing between the slave owners of the South and the abolitionists of the North.

slavery is ileagl.

slavery, is against, the law.

Decision left to territories.

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Land of the Free

T he United States of America. Today this country stands for freedom. But that was not always so. From the early 1600s until 1865, slavery was legal in parts of the country. Most slaves lives were brutal. Many worked in

the fields from sun up to sun down. It was often backbreaking work. Slaves who slowed down might be harshly whipped. Most slaves were poorly fed and clothed. They often lived in broken down shacks. These homes were cold in the winter and hot in the summer. For many slaves, there was no way out. Escaping

alone was difficult and dangerous. Owners hired

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Whippings left slaves brutally scarred or dead.

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slave catchers to catch them. They used dogs to hunt runaways down. Returned slaves were brutally punished as an example to others. They might be nearly whipped to death or tortured. Sometimes, they were put in uncomfortable chains. They also might be branded with a hot iron. Owners branded them with the letter R for returned slave.

The neck ring was used as a punishment for running away.

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Slave hunters often used bloodhounds to track down and chase slaves.

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What Would YOU Do?

What would you do if you were a slave?

Would you try to escape? Would you know where to run? Or . . .

Would you stay where you are? Running away without help might be even more deadly than slavery.

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What really happened . . .

Finding Another Choice

S ome slaves escaped on their own. They took a chance. In time, more slaves learned about another choice. It was known as the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad.

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