{"id":1062,"date":"2017-10-18T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english67.fr\/?page_id=1062"},"modified":"2017-11-02T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:57:40","slug":"slavery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/?page_id=1062","title":{"rendered":"Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The history of US slavery:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"History- 5th Std: Abraham Lincoln and Abolition of Slavery\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLaPgbQJzL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Life of a colonial slave:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ji5zk2HlVXM<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Underground Railroad was <strong>a secret network<\/strong>. \u00a0( = <em>an organized and connected system.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It operated before the Civil War (1861-1865) and ended slavery in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Underground Railroad was run by a network of people who worked <strong>together in secret<\/strong> to help slaves run away.<\/p>\n<p>The Underground Railroad provided <strong>hiding places, food,<\/strong> and often <strong>transportation<\/strong> for the \u00a0fugitives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ( = <em>people who are running away.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The people who helped slaves escape were called \u00ab\u00a0<strong>conductors\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0engineers.\u00a0\u00bb <\/strong>The places along the escape route were called \u00ab\u00a0<strong>stations.\u00a0\u00bb <\/strong>Sometimes escaping slaves were called \u00ab\u00a0<strong>passengers.\u00a0\u00bb <\/strong>Sometimes they were called \u00ab\u00a0<strong>cargo\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0goods<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>It was organized by people who helped about \u00a0<strong>60,000 slaves<\/strong>\u00a0 (men, women, and children) escape from slavery <strong>during the 19th century.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was called the Underground Railroad\u00a0 because the routes of the escapes were a secret, it was as if the journeys were <strong>underground and out of sight.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>(= couldn\u2019t be seen)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many slaveholders ( = <em>slave owners<\/em> ) <strong>were so angry at the success <\/strong>of the Underground Railroad that they grew to <strong>hate <\/strong>the North<\/p>\n<p>As a result, many men, women an d children could regain their freedom.<\/p>\n<p>It also helped <strong>undermine ( <\/strong><em>= put down<\/em><strong> ) the institution of slavery<\/strong>, which was finally ended in the United States during the Civil War.<br \/>\nIf you want to know more about slavery and the underground railroad: <a href=\"http:\/\/pathways.thinkport.org\/living\/\">http:\/\/pathways.thinkport.org\/living\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduplace.com\/kids\/socsci\/books\/applications\/imaps\/maps\/g5s_u6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Underground railroad map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Ballad of the Underground railroad:<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Underground Railroad\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1woVv982Tcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of US slavery: Life of a colonial slave: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ji5zk2HlVXM THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD The Underground Railroad was a secret network. \u00a0( = an organized and connected system.) It operated before the Civil War (1861-1865) and ended slavery in the United States. The Underground Railroad was run by a network of people who worked together &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english67.fr\/?page_id=1062\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slavery<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1101,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1062","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1062\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english67.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}