Secret Room
A Waiting room that was used as an escape route, to the North. There were many safe houses and places for the slaves to hide.This picture comes from the Grist-Mill which has 3 rooms below a basement floor. This room how ever was one of the ones that led to an escape route.The tunnels leading from this waiting room were 3 square ft. and 1,000 ft. long. Other then houses, different types of buildings such as:Churches,barns and caves wre used to. The transportation that was used to get them to these safe houses were; Horses, rowboats, wagons and even actual trains every now and then. When they got to the safe houses, they gave passwords such as "Three packages will arrive on Wedesday" or they would hang a lamp by a certain window. So that the abolitionists would know it was the slaves coming and not the White soldiers.
Anti-Salvery Emblem
"Am I not a Man or a Brother" This is the anti slavery emblem. The cry for freedom and to be equal was very much wanted. This quote explains it all. During the civil war this is the symbol Black and White abolitionists used to carry and the quote they went by. The most known abolitionist is Harriet Tubman, who led thousands of slaves to Freedom. The most outspoken White abolitionist was a newspaper editor named William Lloyed Garrison. He edited and made the antislavery newspaper "LIBERATOR" [January 1831] A black abolitionist William Still was born free and is a successful, confident and a leader aganst slavery. Unlike most Blacks he can read and write and many other things they could not do. Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Greenleaf Whittier made speeches at Anti Slavery Meetings. Then finally the Emancipation Proclamation was declared on January 1,1863.
Escape Routes
Escapees - Eliza Harriss, Henry "Box" Brown, Ellen & William Craft,Willam Wells Brown, Anna Maria Weems,Solomon Northrup and Harriet Tubman. All of these X-slaves had amazing stories to tell. Most slaves made the route of the Underground Railroad that led to Canada,Philidelphia, New-york, Boston, Ohio, Indianna and Michigan. Songs such as "Follow the Drinking Gourd" advised slaves to follow tracks made by a left foot and a pegfoot along a river, untill they reach a place where two rivers meet. Basically certain songs , poems and stories gave clues and directions to the routes of freedom and the Underground Railroad.
