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Passages to Freedom:
Secrets of the Underground RailroadTravelling exhibit available.
This tells the story of challenges faced by the approximately 40,000 Black refugees who escaped to Canada from the United States in the 1850s, helped by such famous "conductors" as Harriet Tubman, who operated for a time from St. Catharines, Ontario.
Passages to Freedom features slave narratives, a large model of a slave cabin, models of a plantation and safe-house, interactive components and clues to the secrets about fleeing to freedom. It is divided into three parts
- Slavery: stories of capture and life as a slave.
- Escape: illustrations and narratives about the dangers of escape; signs, codes and symbols used; the messages in spiritual songs; the importance of the stars; the inventive escape methods including a box like the one used by Henry "Box" Brown to mail himself to freedom.
- Freedom: stories from former slaves and their descendants who found both freedom and prosperity in Canada, and those who found discrimination, racism and even lynching in Canada.
Included are education manuals with stories and interactive games to use with children and school classes.
Components
22 panels and 9 display cases (bilingual text), cloth world and star maps, reproduction artifacts, 3 audio and 3 interactive components, cabin diorama, manuals for set up and programming.
Size
100 square metres, 900 square feet.
Cost
$1,000 for 8 week rental, additional time negotiable.
Shipping
pro-rated, price to be determined.
Availability
March 1, 2008.
Images (in pdf format)
Contact
Nora Reid, Archivist
Welland Historical Museum
140 King Street, Welland ON L3B 3J3
tel.: 905 732 2215
fax.: 905 732 9169
email: nr.wm@cogeco.net
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