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Underground Railroad

STORY PREFACE

Story Summary

I looked at my hands
to see if I was the same person
now I was free.

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
"Conductor" on the Underground Railroad
Called the "Moses" of Her People

Ripley was a town that hated slavery. Maybe Tice Davids, a Kentucky runaway slave, knew that as he swam for his life across the Ohio River.

His white master wasn't far behind. With his eyes fixed on his "property," the owner furiously rowed across the river which separated free states (like Ohio) from slave states (like Kentucky).

What happened next gave a name to a movement.

 

 

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Bos, Carole D. "Underground Railroad" AwesomeStories.com. Date of access
       <http://www.awesomestories.com/history/underground-railroad>.

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