Click2History - The Underground Railroad - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch1.htm">1. STORY PREFACE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch2.htm">2. THE "UNDERGROUND" IS BORN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch3.htm">3. JOURNEY TO SLAVERY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch4.htm">4. PEOPLE SOLD AT AUCTION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch5.htm">5. SLAVE HOMES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch6.htm">6. SLAVES AT WORK</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch7.htm">7. SLAVES ESCAPE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch8.htm">8. LANGUAGE OF THE UNDERGROUND</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch9.htm">9. FAMOUS CONDUCTORS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="underground_railroad_ch10.htm">10. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><a name="preface"><b>PREFACE</b></a></u></font></p> <div align=center><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3"><b><i>I looked at my hands<br> to see if I was the same person<br> now I was free.</i></b><br><br> <a target="_blank" href="images/harriet_tubman.jpg"><b>Harriet Tubman</b></a> (1820-1913)<br> "Conductor" on the Underground Railroad<br> Called the "Moses" of Her People<br><br></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Ripley was a town that hated slavery. Maybe Tice Davids, a Kentucky runaway slave, knew that as he swam for his life across the <a href="http://www.orsanco.org/comm/images/Educational%20map%20for%20email.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Ohio River</b></a>.</p> <p>His white master wasnt far behind. With his eyes fixed on his property, the owner furiously rowed across the river which separated <a target="_blank" href="images/free.states.jpg"><b>free states</b></a> (like Ohio) from <a target="_blank" href="images/slave.states.jpg"><b>slave states</b></a> (like Kentucky).</p> <p>What happened next gave a name to a movement.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="underground_railroad_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>