Text Structure - The Underground Railroad
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Cause and Effect Text Structure in Flight to Freedom
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- CAUSE
- We will search every vehicle.
- EFFECT
- You'll be safe here. Get some rest before tonight.
- “Drastic laws made the Road illegal in the north.”
- READ AND PONDER
- FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
- THE
- Agents put “God’s law” above the law of the land; they believed in “universal freedom for mankind” so they created “stations” in a abandoned barns.
- The second Fugitive Slave law was passed in 1850.
- Which disregards all the ordinary securities of PERSONAL LIBERTY, which tramples on the Constitution...
- The District of Columbia alone complained that in this period the number of its slaves had been reduced from 4694 to 640 by "underground railroads and felonious abductions."
- “Unaccustomed to making their own way, unused to the rigors of northern climate, many of them met poverty and disease.”
- “The Canadians, however, did much to help them; they were willing to absorb the fugitives into their national life, to share their work, and to give them aid in establishing farms.”
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