Incident in Troy, New York In the spring of 1860, Harriet Tubman was requested by Mr. Gerrit Smith to go to Boston to attend a large Anti-Slavery meeting. On her way, she stopped at Troy to visit a cousin, and while there the colored people were one day startled with the intelligence that a fugitive slave, by the name of Charles Nalle, had been followed by his master (who was … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
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Thursday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Goof Morning POU! Today we look feature another conductor of The Underground Railroad. As an 8-year-old slave, John P. Parker was taken from his mother and chained to an elderly African-American man. The man and the boy were forced to walk about 100 miles in 1835 from Norfolk, Va., to Richmond, where their new owners lived. Not long after that, Parker learned that the old … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Wednesday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Happy Hump Day POU! Today's post is not so much about the Underground Railroad, as it is about the Underground Postal Service. This is truly a story that deserves the big screen. Henry "Box" Brown (c.1816–after 1889) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a wooden crate after 33 years of … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Tuesday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Good Morning POU! Today's feature on The Underground Railroad will focus on one of the "conductors", William Still. William Still was just a boy when he helped the first one escape. He never knew the man's name; only that he was being hunted by slave catchers. But in the years ahead, there would be many hundreds more. And Still vowed their stories would never be … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Monday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Good Morning POU! I would like to thank RHOA's Porscha Stewart, the inspiration behind this week's topic. In her honor, this week we will look at extraordinary individuals and little known facts about one of the most important institutions that proved the strength and ingenuity of African-American slaves, The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was neither … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad