Kamika+Sanders

= = = = =Name:= = My name is Abbie Walker, I am 26 and I am an abolitionist.I am against slavery.I was born in 1852.I live with my younger sister Alisha and my loyal husband Johnny.Not all of my family is against slavery.My father and mother are not abolitionist and I couldn't stand the thought of living with them. =

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Entry Number 1:
== Dear journal,the Underground Railroad is a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.It wasnt ran by an individual person or organization.Many whites where there but,it was mostly black.The Underground Railroad moved hundreds of slaves Northward each year.According to an estimate number,South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. == == An o rganized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun towards the end of the 18th century. In 1786 George Washington complained about how one of his runaway slaves was helped by a "society of Quakers, formed for such purposes." The system grew, and around 1831 it was dubbed "The Underground Railroad," after the then emerging steam railroads.The places where the slaves ate and slept,were called,stations and,depots.They were ran by people called stationmasters.I think that starting the Undergroung Railroad was very helpful to all the slaves who wanted to be free.Without all the supporters that helped,the Underground Railroad wouldn't have been a success. ==

Entry Number 2:
== Dear journal,I have just discovered that Harriett Tubman is the leader of the Underground Railroad.WOW!I have always wanted to know who led the group of slaves to freedom.Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as Moses to her people.Over many years,she led hundreds of slaves to freedom.She later became a leader to the abolitionist movement,and during the Civil War she was a spy for the federal forces in South Carolina,as well as a nurse.She made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. == == Harriet Tubman was a very great inspiration for many people.Without her being brave and having so much courage,people would still have been slaves.She put her life at risk just to help others become free.I really admirer her for being a leader for the abolitionist movement.I really wish that i could have joined her on the Underground Railroad and exprienced how their journey was. ==

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==Dear journal,Frederick Douglass once told a group of African American students from a school in Talbot County, Maryland, "What was possible for me is possible for you.Do not think because you are colored you cannot accomplish anything. Strive earnestly to add to your knowledge. He was born,Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father. He was born in February 1817,and died February 20, 1895.He never really knew his birth father.Frederick Douglass grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement and the first black citizen to hold high rank (as U.S. minister and consul general to Haiti) in the U.S. government.== ==I never knew that he was a great leader for the abolitionist movement.I really support the fact that he supported the abolitionist movement.I know that him and Harriet Tubman had a big inspiration to those that were abolitionist.The statement that he made to his students about what was possible for him is possible for them'' was a really great statement to make. This statment would really incourage them to follow in his footsteps and be a leader. ==

Essential Questions
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? Me being an abolitionist think that slavery was unnecessary.I see that the people that I researched felt the same way.==