Harriet Tubman is possibly the most well known of all the underground railroads conductors. During a ten year span she made about 19 trips into the south and she escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. As she once pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she never lost a single passenger.
This is one of the songs they used to help out each other and songs are ways to communicate to each other. This song Steal Away was used to communicate that the person who is singing the song is planning to escape and that's how they communicate.
Steal Away
Chorus: steal away, steal away!
Steal away to Jesus?
Steal away, steal away home!
I ain’t got long to stay here!
My Lord calls me!
He calls me by the thunder!
The trumpet sound it in my soul!
I ain’t got long to stay here!
Chorus
My Lord calls me!
He calls me by the lighting!
The trumpet sound it in my soul!
I ain’t got long to stay here!
Chorus.
This is called the slave trade triangle and it shows where they went. In the slaves states they were forced to pick cotton, sugar and tobacco. They would get badly hurt if they weren't doing enough work. This event impacted a lot of people and it still does till this day.
Your blog was so good
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ReplyDeleteI really like how you included a map of where this event in time happened. Don't you think it's crazy that these songs were used to disguise secret messages to help other people? I think that maybe next time you could add a video of the song you chose so people can listen to it.
Hey Hope :)
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog, it was very informative and the fact that you put your map in. Is a great help to your viewers as they can see the work you have been doing. Something you could´ve added, as Sofia said maybe a video of the song? Overalls your work was amazing!