Unit 3: The Secret Road to Freedom (1èreG6)

Those who Diced with Death

The document under study is the trailer for a TV series entitled “Underground”. It is about the Underground Railroad. We could see white characters who were the slave masters, some had guns, they were the slave catchers. We could also see a big house, the house of the slave master and its plantation of cotton with slaves working on it. Moreover, we could see the two main characters Rosalie, who is a house slave working in the big house and Noah, a slave who works outside on the plantation. They both planned to escape and to run away from their plantation thanks to the Underground Railroad. Furthermore, we can also see a couple of white people, who are station masters and abolitionists, helping fugitive slaves to escape. They are working with a free black man. It is interesting to note that fleeing the plantation is not an easy decision to take because it is often the slaves that are left behind that would pay the price.

Homework: Learn the lesson.