Each year during the month of February, we observe Black History Month. In doing so, we honour the legacies of black North Americans.
The Underground Railroad, which was a series of secret routes and safe houses between the United States and Canada, was crucial in helping slaves find freedom. We will be discussing this further this coming week..
http://www.blackhistorycanada.ca/events.php?themeid=21&id=6
Watch the above video and read about The Underground Railroad.
Post a comment about your thoughts and feelings.
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I personally think that it is awful that regular people, just like you and me, were forced to be slaves just for how they looked. I am very grateful that people like Harriet Tubman helped to free slaves and get them to a safe place where they could be who they wanted to be. I am happy that the “Underground Railroad” system was created to help the slaves. It was quite clever to use regular railroad words like conductor, station, passenger, and cargo to disguise what was really happening. I think that we are very fortunate that slavery isn't nearly as big and that laws have been put into place against it. It would be very nice to have all slavery be abolished in all countries and have every single person be free.
First off,that woman was going crazy. It made me understand the stress she was undergoing. If that man had been 3 hours late, doing a dangerous mission and he was my son, I'd be bouncing off the walls with stress and probably sweating blood.
The dangers of crossing from USA to Canada were at high stakes, and getting caught resulted in as severe punishments as Death. Not that staying there was a better choice.
The video made me sit on the edge of my seat, waiting for each second to pass.
When I learned that "Jordan" would be a code name, I thought it was cool. Three reasons why: First, My name is Jordan. Second it was used to code the Detroit river and Jordan means "Rising from the river" Third, It's interesting to see how they remembered that the Jordan river was used to free all the slaves from Egypt.
I feel awful that so many people supported Racism, and treated human beings so badly! Everybody deserves to be treated equally, no matter what skin colour. But i'm grateful that some people, are above that and helped people cross into Canada, Where they could be free and get equal rights.
Overall I think that the good things about the underground railroad, was that it brought out the greater good in people, to help. For in God's eye we are all equal, the way we should see people today.
I think that the "Underground Railroad" was a very important system for helping people who were just like us, but not treated equally, find freedom. I find it particullarly interesting that they used code names like "Dawn" and "Midnight" and "Jordan". I think that it was very important to use these code names because if they directly said the places, then they would be caught and punished (the punishments were pretty nasty to). Althogether, i think that it was kind of sick to enslave a human being who you are no greater than.
PS. Sorry about the bad grammer on the last sentence.
Saturday, February 15, 2014- 2014/3/4
Black History Month
Each year during the month of February, we observe Black History Month. In doing so, we honour the legacies of black North Americans. The Underground Railroad, which was a series of secret routes and safe houses between the United States and Canada, was crucial in helping slaves find freedom. We will be discussing this further this coming week..
http://www.blackhistorycanada.ca/events.php?themeid=21&id=6 Watch the above video and read about The Underground Railroad. Post a comment about your thoughts and feelings.
I find it very heart warming that all of the “conductors”, who put themselves at risk to move the black slaves up to Canada, or to states that were slave free. I also find it amazing how the people helping the slaves could make such an interesting and amazing code (like “Midnight” and “Dawn”). I don’t believe how the “Underground Railroad” wasn’t found out about by the law.
I don’t know how people could keep other people who are just like them like work animals. It is awful that the slavery got so bad that they needed to start the Underground Railroad, and I hope the world has learned it’s lesson about slaves.
~Mackenzie
I think that it is very wrong that people with just tiny differences, like skin tone, they are treated so much different than the others. Black people were turned into slaves just because of their skin colour. Black people, for example, were only allowed to sit at the the back of the bus. Once a black lady sat at the front and she was put in jail! Crazy isn’t it? If it wasn’t for people like Martin Luther King Jr., The world would still be a bad one, disrespecting people of their skin colour. That is why we, in the month of February, we celebrate black history month, remembering the horros of the past.
at the end i mean "horrors of the past"
Personally, I feel terrible and dirty that white people treated Harriet Tubman and other dark-skinned people so terribly. What scares me is that many went along with the bandwagon of hating these people just because of their skin color. Who should care? Does it honestly matter if other people have darker skin? Why should it matter?
I think it is amazing that even in this depressing time for dark-skinned people, men and women like Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. stud up to the white people who treated them like slaves.
The "Underground Railroad" was created solely to help dark-skinned slaves escape from their plantations, and so that they could live how they wanted.
I am still very upset, since things like racism still exist. I am thankful that slavery has taken a serious dive, and that in the next 15 years or so, it will stop. I find it disgusting, absolutely disgusting, that these people were treated like rodents.
I think of how god looked down on us and saw this. To god, we are all equal, and he most likely believes that the dark-skinned people should not be treated in such bad ways. I would do anything to go back in time and stop what happened before it happened, so that these people would not have to go through the pain and suffering that they did.
-Aidan the Anti-Racist
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