LIFE ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

FIVE INTERESTING FACTS

• Slaves got beaten if they tried to escape.
• The plantation ownwers got slave carhers to catch run away slaves.
• Slaves worked from sun up to sun down.
• Ownwers put bells around the slaves necks so they can hear when the slaves run away.
• Slaves worked for no pay.

OPINIONS

• Some people thought slavery was good.
• Some people thought slavery was wrong.
• Owners hated when slaves ran away.

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• Plantation: A large farm that grows mostly one crop.
• Forbidden: Not Allowed.
• Blacksmith: A worker who shapes iron beating it and hamering it in an iron block.
• Gourd: Any of a family of tendril vines.

INTERESTING FACT

• I learned that owners put bells around the slaves neck so they can hear when they ran away.