QUIZ
Which answer is True?
"True" Answers
1. Maroons
Maroons were escaped slaves living in "outlaw" independent communities in the Great Swamp/Dismal Swamp area of the South. They forced some plantation owners to pay a monthly allotment of food and livestock to avoid being raided. Your $25 donation makes you a Maroon conductor.
2. How many? Over 50,000 slaves escaped!
3. Yokum
Constable Yokum - was a peacekeeper who knew the passwords - like "William Penn" - employed by agents of the Underground Railroad and used them to move escaped slaves along to safety. He is famous for mis-directing slave catchers. Your $100 donation makes you a Constable Yokum conductor
4. Goodrich
William Goodrich - was a successful black businessman man (barbering, photography) in York PA, who built a 5-story 'skyscraper'. He owned a railway business and transported runaways in his rail cars. He also provided a safe house to an associate of John Brown's after the Harper's Ferry raid. Your $500 donation makes you a William Goodrich conductor.
5. Tubman
Harriet Tubman - the 'Moses" of her people - personally liberated more than 300 slaves, including her mother and father. Sidelined during the Civil War as a nurse, she nonetheless was the first woman spy during the war and the first woman to lead an armed expedition, the Combahee River Raid, which liberated over 700 slaves. Your $1000 donation makes you a Harriet Tubman conductor.