Wednesday Nov. 18

Question 1

Print Culture

Answer 1

• Tv and films

- Impact our view of the world

Question 2

Underground Railroad

Answer 2

Harriet Tubman

• runaway slave from Maryland
• lead 300 slaves
• 19 trips
• Never lost a passenger
• Secret route to freedom “Underground Railroad”
• John Tubman= husband
• came back to get family,
• Gets husband, but he remarried (still takes him)
• 1856 Bounty of 40,000 dollars
• Union as spy, cook, nurse
• Antislavery movement

Daniel Osborn (Quacker)

• white citizen
• supporter of giving slaves freedom
• example of regular type guy, to help slaves out.

Question 3

Anti Slavery narratives (1940s-1850s)

Answer 3

Frederick Douglass

• Autobiography
• runaway slave
• wrote North Star

Solomon Northrop

• free slave in North
• captured and sent south
• slave was 12 years
• wrote about experiences

Harriet Jacob

• Wrote autobiography
• few formal slaves that wrote about her experiences
• So North can know what was going on in the South

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle’s Tom’s Cabin (1852)

• daughter of preacher
• he took ideas from second great awakening
• she was motivated from fugitive slave laws.
• wrote novel: impact populous
• best seller: mostly or all in north
• million copies in Britain
• Slave about Uncle Tom
• Uncle Tom try to escape and ordered to death.

-Catherine Beecher Stowe (Side note)
promote American virtue in the home
“woman raise up new generations of virtuous americans “