The Underground Railroad for kids: from slavery to freedom with 21 activities

A narrow escape and a secret network

Passengers : fleeing a life of bondage

Print adinkra cloth

Homemade hoecakes

Story-telling griots

Rubber band banjo

Ticket agents and railroad operators : fighting for abolition and aiding runaways

Silver Seminole gorgets

Create an antislavery handbill

Write and decode underground railroad messages

Singing to freedom

Conductors : transporting illegal cargo

Candle in a cup

Pack up and go

Visit an underground railroad station

Navigate by the North Star

Follow the drinking gourd

Stationmasters : hiding passengers from slave catchers

Get lost in disguise

Design a hiding place

Shake on it

Make a paper quilt block

Light a lantern

Brakemen : making a life in freedom

Canada today

End of the line : war, emancipation, and equality

Civil War in your state

Wartime wrappings

Juneteenth.