Heroes and Helpers

The people of the Underground Railroad were..

• farmers and shopkeepers

• hairdressers and bankers

• ministers and merchants

• fishermen and boat captains

These conductors and stationmasters were mostly of...

• Asian descent

• African descent

• Mexican descent

• European descent

This conductor made 19 successful trips to lead people to freedom.

• Rosa Parks
• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth

This businessman raised money for the Underground Railroad.

• Levi Coffin

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Elijah Lovejoy

• Frederick Douglas

This abolitionist disguised himself as a sailor to escape slavery.

• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison

This conductor pretended to be a slave trader, or slaveholder, or a traveling salesman.

• Calvin Fairbanks

• William Still

• Quakers

• John Fairfield

This religious group were the first to speak out against slavery.

• Baptists
• Catholics
• Methodists
• Quakers

This historian published one of the first records of the secret network.

• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• William Still
• Frederick Douglass

This writer created an antislavery newspaper called..

• Freedom's Voice
• The Emancipator
• The Abolitionist
• The North Star

This conductor disguised runaways.. boys dressed as girls and girls dressed as boys.

• Calvin Fairbanks

• Elijah Lovejoy

• Harriet Tubman

• William Still