https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5 Made with magic en-us 2018-02-19 19:27:08 UTC 2025-10-25 21:26:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 3801099 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/233036120 This was a text about how Walter was forced out of his home at the age where he could barely walk. The boy worked in the same tobacco fields doing the same backbreaking work over and over again. 
I found this text interesting because I had no idea that one person could work at one place for so long. It was also very sad that the only memory of his mother was the one of him leaving her. That really got my intention while I was reading through the text.]]> 2018-02-19 19:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/233036120 3801859 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/233036556 It's a story, where there's a person, at night, who escaped. An old man told him that there are people that could help above the Ohio River. He can see the birds flying north after the winter, so they could show him the way. He is tired, hungry, he's scared that if he's going to be found  , he think that's he is lost.
Finally he found a river, but it was too big to swim and he is too tired to keep going, so he decided to rest and sleep. In the morning, when he woke up, he found a black man standing in front of him and he said "Come with me".       ]]> 2018-02-19 19:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/233036556 3801826 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/233036891 They say there was a man who lived in a brick house who helped black men reach freedom. Cross a river and knock on his door, he was an old white man named John, he gives you a look that sends chills down your spine, but then he reaches his arm out reassuring you that you were safe, he said his name was John. He has a wife and children. His wife gives you the best meal you have ever eaten, along with some rhubarb pie. He allows you to rest in a cellar in his barn. He gives you directions and suggests a few places to stay, gives you a map.]]> 2018-02-19 19:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/233036891 3801099 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235521018 This plant was a major crop in some states. This required a lot of slaves to plant and harvest the crops.]]> 2018-02-26 17:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235521018 3801099 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235523098 There are some cabins set apart from the owner's house. These cabins are the homes to the slaves. They had leaky roofs, drafty walls and dirty floors but they managed to find privacy and community within slaves.]]> 2018-02-26 18:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235523098 3801859 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235525173 The runaway slaves often looked for moss on trees, because moss typically grows on the north side of the planet. It help because when the North Star is gone on the day or a cloudy nights as a compass.]]> 2018-02-26 18:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235525173 3801826 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235528190 John Rankin would put a little candle at his window as a sign that it was safe to cross the Ohio river to his house. he helped them escape their slavery and go to freedom.]]> 2018-02-26 18:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235528190 3801859 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235529448 The way that slaves could escape from slavery is to go North. They used the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper to located the North Star. The Little Dipper is the brightest star in the night sky. By following the North Star, the slaves could reach Canada and they will be free.]]> 2018-02-26 18:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235529448 3801099 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235529707 At four o'clock they need to be out of bed and feed the stock. After the slaves needed to work in the fields. Around ten to eleven o'clock they go and work in the houses in]]> 2018-02-26 18:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235529707 3801826 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235529801 Sometimes, conductors would use horse drawn wagons to help hide slaves between safe houses. Usually in bags or under hay. Sometimes there were secret compartments at the bottom.]]> 2018-02-26 18:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235529801 3801099 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235537921 The south and the north weren't agreeing. It got even worst when Lincoln became president and said that they would stop slavery. This got the south very mad because they were already using slaves to grow their plantation. Many states got mad and left the Union.]]> 2018-02-26 18:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235537921 3801826 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235537977 North and South couldn't agree on anything, North was wealthy while South depended on cotton. North made things, South grew them. North didn't like slavery and the South was just selfish and didn't care about the fact that they were hurting people. It led to war.]]> 2018-02-26 18:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235537977 3801859 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235538804 The North and South can't decide if that they want slavery or not. When Lincoln became the president and he said that we should stop slavery, but Jefferson Davis said that black and white people are not the same and the black people should do slavery. That is how the Civil war begin.]]> 2018-02-26 18:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/235538804 3801826 https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/236047100 When the slaves reached the safe houses they often hid in attics or basements or barns. sometimes they had hidden rooms behind bookcases or stairwells.]]> 2018-02-27 18:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3801859/faek8rbxnsa5/wish/236047100