Day 140 Portland Freedom Trail field trip & 6 x 6

March 22, 2012 Day 140

LA Book: 1 page

Math: 2 pages, + History math

Field Trip: Portland Freedom Trail

http://www.portlandfreedomtrail.org/

6 x 6 Underground Railroad

Vocabulary

1. Stowaway: A person who hides aboard ship, vehicle, or aircraft in order to gain free passage

2. Temperance: restraint or moderation, especially in yielding to one's appetites or desires

3. Abyssinian: A small country in Africa, and a black people church

4. Abolish: To do away with, to put an end to

5. Emancipation: The act of freeing or state of being free

6. Conductor (as in Underground Railroad): Abolitionists or free slaves that helped other slaves get across the Underground Railroad

Sentences

1. Some of the slaves that got to Portland were stowaways; they stowed away on ships that were going to Portland.

2. Blacks, compared to their white counterparts, were usually older, more reliable, stable family men who were the pillars of their communities and often deeply committed to the temperance movement.

3. The Abyssinian Church in Portland, Maine was the first organized Abyssinian Church in the country.

4. The Abolitionists of the North protested to abolish slavery.

5. The Anti-slavery movement suggested the emancipation of slaves.

6. Harriet Tubman and William Still were known as “conductors” on the Underground Railroad.

Facts & Details

1. The Underground Railroad was named so because a slave catcher was chasing a little slave girl and before he knew it she disappeared, as if she had been sucked underground.

2. One “train stop” on the Underground Railroad in Portland was a man named Jacob C. Dickinson’s barber shop

3. Quakers are always against slavery and violence.

4. Another “train stop” in Portland is the second hand clothing store of Lloyd Scott; At this stop, Lloyd would give warm clothing to the fugitives as they continued along the Underground Railroad

5. Lumber (and slaves) would come to the Franklin Street Wharf in Portland, another train stop on the Underground Railroad

6. A very strong opinionated man named Charles Fredrick made a train stop at his house for fugitive slaves; he hid them in his huge basement for the night with a real comfy bed

Questions

1. What were some of the most common jobs for African Americans in the free North? A: hack Drivers, barbers, mariners, domestic workers or second hand clothing dealers

2. Why were barber shops important to the anti-slavery movement and the Underground Railroad? A: because, they would sell fake facial hair to change the appearance of a slave to help sneak away

3. How did Maine participate and benefit from the Triangular Trade system of the previous century? A: Portland was a huge port where they would import Sugar and molasses (and slaves) and export rum

4. How are the women’s suffrage movement and the anti-slavery movement connected? A:they are both fighting against people’s rights

5. What happened in 1832 at the Free Meeting House in Portland? A: William Lloyd Garrison started the Maine anti-slavery movement

6. What happened in Portland in 1866? A: There was a huge fire

People

1. Rueben Ruby: the foremost African American anti-slavery activist and Underground Railroad conductor in Portland, started the first Abyssinian church

2. Rev. Amos N Freeman: The first fulltime minister at the Abyssinian church

3. Charles Frederick Eastman: a conductor on the Underground Railroad and no man did more for the poor fugitives than he

4. William Lloyd Garrison: The man who started the Maine anti-slavery movement in 1832

5. General Samuel C. Fessenden: an abolitionist, state legislator, lawyer and passionate supporter of Portland’s African American community

6. Lloyd Scott: A second hand clothing dealer who gave warm clothes to fugitive slaves.