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Underground to Canada

  • Chapter 1

    1. Old John and Mrs Hensen drive to town.
    2. There was a notice saying that a slave-trader was coming to town from the deep south to buy slaves.
    3. The whole news spread very quickly between slaves.
    4. Mammy Sally tells Julilly about a free place called 'Canda' where she could be free. She also tells her that if they break apart then she should go there by following the North-star
    5. Julilly kept thinking about the free place called 'Canada'
  • Chapter 2

    1. The slave trader comes to buy slaves.
    2. Mammy Sally and Julilly are broken apart.
    3. Julilly was accompanied my many other frightened children and three men who were chained to the back of the wagon.
    4. When Old John saw Julilly, he waved his white handkerchief till it became a tiny speck and disappeared.
    5. Julilly was heart-broken and couldn't control her tears
  • Chapter 3

    1.The weather was hot and the children frightened.
    2.The children were very thirsty. Julilly started shimmering pools of water ahead of their cart.
    3.The slave-trader's bottle was empty so he ordered the driver to stop so that he could re-fill his bottle. This meant that the three men would have a break.
    4.There they saw a tall white man axing a tree with a small nigger boy stacking the wood. When they saw the slaves, they got him water.
    5.The nigger boy told Julilly that he was a free boy.