Slave Trading

 In Social Studies we are learning about slave trading and Spirituals. Spirituals were used to help slaves communicate and try to figure out a way to escape without being caught. Harriet Tubman was the first slave to escape so she decided to write songs that had hidden messages. The hidden messages would help the slaves try to escape.

One of her songs was 'Wade in the water'

The message in this song is if you are trying to escape go through the water instead of on land because their masters would send out dogs to search for them and kill them. Over a span of 10 years Harriet had made 19 trips into the South and help over 300 slaves escape. The Underground rail road was paths that's Harriet had come up to help slaves escape without being caught.

Slave map