Assignment #6: Black History Month

Today im am going to talk about the Underground Railroad.The Underground Railroad was chain of secret routes and safe houses used in 19th century by black slaves in the U.S to escape to Canada. The Underground Railroad helped around 30000 people from being slaves for the rest of there lives . The leader of the UnderGround Railroad was Harriet Tubman, she was also a slave. If it wasn't for Harriet Tubman and here followers most of the black people would have still be enslaved and alot of them would have also died. Information about the escaped slaves made there owners really mad so they hierd bounty hunters to catch tem and bring them back the bounty hunters were known as Slave catchers. The websites I used to help me with this are... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad, and http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/tubman/rail_1