Unit 3: The Secret Road to Freedom (1èreG_gr1)
Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
1.
When did the
resistance become more organized?
The resistance
became more organized in the 1840s.
2.
How did the
network of people help the slaves to escape?
They helped
:
a.
By crossing
rivers
b.
By hiding
the runaway slaves
c. By giving them
passage on wagons
d. By giving them
money
e. By giving them
passage on ships
3. It was a social
network of people helping out slaves to runaway. Moreover, it was also a magnificent network of
technology and transportation to help the slaves escape north.
4.
It was a metaphoric network on which slaves would
disappear as their masters would never see them again.
5.Since some people think, even today, that the Underground
railroad was a real road underground, it gave him the idea to write a novel
about an actual network beneath/under the earth of America
where slaves would use it to go to the North.
To
conclude, at the time America
was the land of the free for the white people, however,
for the slaves, it was a place of oppression, that was the reason why they
wanted to leave America. In fact, at the time
for European immigrants America was a
place where they could pursue their dreams. Meanwhile,
for the slaves it was not a safe place for them to stay because of the way they
were treated, they were dehumanized. America
was the land of the free and the dream for white people, however, it was the home of the oppressed who wanted
to flee the country.
