The End Of My Journey

  The next day, we were told to go up the hills close by and then travel straight for around 2 more days. they gave us some food , mostly fish- from the river- and some herbs. Celina was getting more excited and excited as time went. Climbing the hills were no easy feat. The trail was muddy and did not look safe. But after tired hours of walking on just plain will, we still made it to the top and continued our journey north. We traveled for a day straight before we realized that there were White people nearby. We could see their horses and their large boots from underneath the bushes, where we were hiding. They kept calling out for slaves to show themselves. Fortunately, they didn't notice us and were saved. the rest of the journey just went by our will. We just wouldn't give up. Our next station was the border so when we reached there, we met 3 of our kind. They told us to wait a day for a carriage to come and take us with a few other freed slaves (who will arrive by tomorrow) Thats how I reached Upper Canada. Now i live in my own hut with my lover Celina. One day we would build a family here. My Journey is the past now.
BY: ABDULLAH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

My Journey Part 1

    Right now i am a free slave but it wasn't always like that. Now that I looks back at what i have been through, it seem like a miracle that i am here. I am in Canada and it is a great place.I have been only here a week but things seem to get better. We are treated better, the children have more of education and things are going to get better (I just know it!). It all started when i worked for the McKenzies close to the Atlantic. I worked hard everyday and night. I barely slept. From lifting heavy things to doing the gardening, i did everything. One day, another black slave told me that people were exiting the states to the greater north. Obviously it is nearly impossible to not get caught. Apparently she (Celina) got the directions from her cousin who recently ran away. I agreed to go with her on this journey. To get the North we had to follow the North star. She had a quilt with her which showed us directions. Even though i didn't understand how to read the quilt, she obviously did. When we came upon a nearby White village she would take the right turn. After 4 days of rough survival, we reached a deport. We met some people at a hut, where they gave us food and told us we are not that far away. I slept with Celina close by, knowing we would get through after this rough times. After all, the only food we had recently were dirty river water and berries from bushes.
  BY ABDULLAH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

FREE AT LAST

My life has been really good now that I'm a not a slave. When i was a slave i never got the right to vote. it was not in till 1870 did i get to vote. In the underground railroad when i travailed i would only find houses with lanterns on them. If you find a house with a lantern on it it mean it is a safe house. some times if you are lucky they will feed you nice hot food. when i travailed i Saw very big cities that i thought i would never see. i first saw Wilmington then Philadelphia Pennsylvania after that New york then some nice i reached a house and a nice lady in side it gave me some warm clothes for when i reach Canada. She made sure i got to lake Erie safely. Lake Erie was a hard to get across But when i did i was FREE AT LAST.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_slaves_get_the_right_to_vote
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j9.html

BY ALEX :D

My Life As A Slave

I have only told you half my story theres more to it than that. After being a slave for the whole beginning my life my mom found away to leave our slave lives behind and start a new life in Canada it was called 'The Under Ground Railroad' it's not what it sounds like it not a railroad and it's not under ground. It's a way to get people free from slavery. It took a long time to get to Canada but once we got there it was an smashing feeling we were free although there were still some people that hated us due to our colour, it didn't matter because we were FREE! 


By: Laura Howald 29

My Life As A Slave!

It was a very hard time in my life! I was a slave for quite a long time. I remember waking up and getting to work on the cotton crops right away. It was really hot and the only time I'd get water was after a rainfall; and the was a puddle on the ground so I would drink that. My mom was always extra protective with me after my brothers and sisters were killed or sold. Mom would run off for food most of the time we got raw corn, berries, or potato's. It wasn't this best but it was good. It was a hard life bin a slave it's hard for me to be talking about this now but I now that I'm lucky to be here today! :)

By: Laura Howald 29 :P

Life as a slave

Good morning

i remeber when i had to plant and pick cotton. I had to work at sun rise and stop at sun set. I have been a slave all my life. I really don't remember my brothers and sisters. All of them were either sold or killed. I do remember my mother hiding me in the woods so that our master Billy Grandy would not sell me. I never really got water my mother had to find water in a puddle and it always had bugs in it. When i was hungry mother picked berries, raw corn, potato's and other things. I have heard about the under ground rail road. Only the slaves know about it. We all use code words so that our masters would not know what we are talking about. i am so glade im not a slave any more my life was so bad but now i am free because of the under groud railroad



http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/slavery.htm


By Alex