BY SABRINA S – 12 YEARS OLD
Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
This month is about black history and the underground railroad helped a lot of African slaves escape. Somebody who helped multiple slaves escape was Harriet Tubman.
Harriet Tubman was a slave herself and where there is a will there’s a way. A nearby community that made the underground railroad helped Harriet escape. Harriet of course came back for her family and multiple others. “I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
There is a community that calls themselves the Quakers, who helped slaves and gave them homes once they escaped. The Quakers gave them food and shelter while finding them homes far from their owners.
The underground railroad sent many slaves to South and North America where many became educators to young kids and made history.
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
Currently, the Quakers aren’t working to help the slaves since there aren’t really slaves to save but they are still supporting and protesting for black rights.
