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Journey to Freedom National Geographic activity

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Journey to Freedom National Geographic activity

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You are a slave.
Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to.

And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape.

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You are a slave.
Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to.

And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?

Field hands

Popular abolitionist emblem,
designed in 1787

Restraint devices

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The Underground Railroad - National Geographic Education

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You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . .

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La tratta degli schiavi

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In viaggio per la libertà

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Harriet Tubman

La straordinaria forza di una donna