You work in the fields. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to another person. You work for a farmer in 1850's in Maryland. Six long days a week you take care of his fields and make him rich. And yet . . .
Freedom means a hard, dangerous journey.
Most slaves chose not to run away. Very few actually did. Millions of slaves stayed on. Instead of trying to escape, they protested by working more slowly and pretending to be sick. Take a journey on the Underground Railroad by clicking the lantern on the hitching post below.