How did slaves rebel against their situation? - PowerPoint Presentation

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How did slaves rebel against their situation?

Key Words

Objectives:

Describe the

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nderground Railroad and consider its use and success in helping slaves run away

Evaluate different ways of rebelling against your owner

Evaluate the impact of slave rebellions on the slave tradeSlide2

Complete the slave resistance scenario sheet you have been given with as much detail as possible. Do not forget to use ideas from your last lesson 

Starter – Complete the

sheetSlide3

What kind of rebellion can you see happening here?Slide4

The Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses.

The people who helped

slaves escape were called

conductors

or

engineers

.

The places along the escape route were called "stations.“

Sometimes escaping slaves were called "passengers."

Sometimes they were called "cargo" or "goods."

Underground RailroadSlide5

Free blacks, whites, and even some slaves worked as conductors to help slaves escape. Everybody who worked with the Underground Railroad took a big risk. If they were caught, they risked a serious punishment, even death.

What kinds of people worked the Underground Railroad?Slide6

Harriet Tubman the Underground Railroad’s most famous “conductor”Harriet was enslaved on the Brodess plantation in Eastern Maryland. She navigated her way through the woods at night, found shelter and helped free Blacks.

She reached freedom in Philadelphia.

Harriet Tubman freed about 300 slaves and its been said that she never lost a single passenger.

Harriet TubmanSlide7

Men and women who operated Underground Railroad stations hid slaves in their homes, shops, churches, schools, and barns. Conductors drove slaves hidden in wagons or coaches to the next station. Conductors led slaves through woods and fields on foot until they reached a safe house.

Slaves were put on boats that sailed north to freedom, or they were put on trains heading north.

What

sort

of things did the Underground Railroad volunteers do?Slide8

To the left, fugitives hid in the secret compartment of the cupboard in this Gettysburg, Pennsylvania house.Below are other secret hideouts where fugitives would escape to.

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Closed

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Hide outsSlide9

Slaves sometimes wore disguises to avoid being recognized and returned to slavery. Henry “Box” Brown “mailed” himself to freedom, travelling to Philadelphia in a wooden crate disguised as “cargo.”

DisguisesSlide10

Sometimes fugitives would be transported from one station to another in false-bottom wagons. Harriet Tubman transported her parents from Maryland to Delaware using one of these wagons.

TransportationSlide11

Using the underground railroad code sheets try to work out the coded messages ..... Good luck!

In pairs!Slide12

In groups of 3 or 4 you need to plan your own rebellion and turn it into a drama which you will then perform to the whole class.This can be a violent or non violent rebellionYou can base it on fact or fictionYou must include different characters and learn your scriptYou will be awarded marks for performance and for your storyline

GOOD LUCK

Plan your own rebellionSlide13

Its time to perform your dramas Slide14

Discussion – How do you think the white slave owners felt about rebellious slaves and rebellions?Slide15

You must create your own comic strip YOU CANComplete by hand or on computerChoose a topic you have studied on slavery so far to complete the comic on

YOU MUST

Have a storyline and charactersInclude colourful images