Quilt Warm Up
Quote 1
• “We had old ragged huts made out of poles, and
some of the cracks were filled with mud and moss,
and some were not. We didn’t have any good beds,
just scaffolds jailed up to the wall made out of
poles and old ragged bedding thrown on them.
That sure was hard sleeping, but even that felt
good to our weary bones after those long hard
days of work in the fields.”
Quote 2
• M”y father was sold away from us when I was
small. That was a sad time for us. Master would
not sell the mothers away from their children, so
we lived on without fear of being sold. My Pa sure
did hate to leave us. He missed us and we longed
for him. He would often slip back to our cottage at
night. We would gather around him and crawl up
in his lap, an he tickled us for a long time. But he
gave us these pleasures at a painful risk. When his
master missed him, he would beat him all the way
home.”
Quote 3
• “Uncle Big Jake sure worked the slaves
from early morning till night. When you are
in the field, you’d better not lag behind.
When it is raining or snowing the hands are
put to work fixing this and that. It didn’t
matter what the weather was, we would be
out in the fields working all day long.”
Quote 4
• “The slaves did not have churches as we have
now. They walls out of small pine trees. Some of
them did even have pine trees for walls. When
they wanted to sing and pray, they would steal off
into the woods. Whipping did not stop them from
having meetings. When one place was discovered
they would make another..All of them would sing
and pray.”
Abolitionist Movement
Key Terms
• Abolitionists- men and women who
work to end slavery.
• Emancipation- the freeing of slaves.
What did abolitionists believe?
• 1.) Most abolitionists demanded immediate
freeing of the slaves.
• 2.) Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong
because they thought slavery was:
a.) Morally wrong
b.) Cruel and inhumane
c.) A violation of the principles of democracy
Harriet Tubman
• Led hundreds of enslaved African
Americans to freedom along the
Underground Railroad
William Lloyd Garrison
• Wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked
for the immediate emancipation of all
enslaved African Americans
Frederick Douglas
• Wrote the North Star newspaper and
worked for rights for African Americans
and women to better their lives.
Underground Railroad Terms
• Track- the path that the enslaved people
followed to freedom.
• Conductor- the escaped enslaved person who
knew the path and led others along their
journey
• Passengers- the enslaved people who were
running away to freedom
• Stations- the safe houses that the runaway
enslaved people stayed and hid inside.