Word Wednesday: Tubman on the Twenty
It's the year 2020.
One hundred years ago women gained the right to vote in America. Mrs Harriet Tubman-a suffragist and one of the many hero's helping to smuggle slaves to safe havens during the Underground Railroad-was slated to replace slave owner and 7th POTUS Andrew Jackson on the American twenty dollar bill, on this turbulent year of 2020.
We then wrote letters to the current president of the US.
Make 2020 Great Again, POTUS! https://www.wikihow.com/Contact-the-President-of-the-United-States
Canada played a crucial role in aiding black slaves from the South.
Families, especially in rural areas, offered their homes and barns as places to rest after the journey North, before slavery was abolished in the Emancipation Proclamation 1863. The kids were full of questions about how people traveled that far by foot, if families stayed together, the welfare of children of slaves...Many questions answered through the picture books of Sankofa Read Aloud.
A small town, not far from ours, is home to one of the safe havens offered to humans traveling to Canada from America on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubmans niece is buried here in Canada!
Recently, local Silvia Weaver of Heritage Haldimand has penned a book about this small towns rich history and Graeme Bachiu has created a six-part film series highlighting this area and it's importance.
'Sankofa Read Alouds' has a variety of pictures books about the Underground Railroad, as well as stories to highlight the power of words.
Underground Railroad (Henry's Freedom Box, Secret Signs of the Underground Railroad)
Power of Words