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A review by taun
What Was the Underground Railroad? by Who HQ, Yona Zeldis McDonough
4.0
We (students) give this book 4.5 stars. This book is short, but has a lot to it. There’s accounts of different people, like Harriet Tubman & Henry ‘Box’ Brown, who were former slaves who had run away.
This book taught me that slavery is wrong, people are not to be owned. Runaway slaves were sometimes caught by slave catchers and were sent back to their owners, often to be beat in front of the other slaves as a warning. Running away was dangerous.
We learned that the Underground Railroad was not a railroad, but it was a series of safe houses, called stations. Conductors were the people that led runaways to freedom, some of those conductors were former slaves. They used blankets & lamps as signs, false walls and floor panels in safe houses to hide runaways. The journey was always very dangerous and very hard.
This book taught me that slavery is wrong, people are not to be owned. Runaway slaves were sometimes caught by slave catchers and were sent back to their owners, often to be beat in front of the other slaves as a warning. Running away was dangerous.
We learned that the Underground Railroad was not a railroad, but it was a series of safe houses, called stations. Conductors were the people that led runaways to freedom, some of those conductors were former slaves. They used blankets & lamps as signs, false walls and floor panels in safe houses to hide runaways. The journey was always very dangerous and very hard.