WELCOME TO SOCIAL STUDIES!

Your task today is to read pages 155 - 159 in your Social Studies textbook.
You will learn about the Underground Railroad, part of which existed right here in Detroit! 

The Underground Railroad wasn't actually about trains ... It was a very important and secret system which helped slaves escape to the north, and sometimes even to Canada!
It's VERY INTERESTING reading!

Horse-drawn wagons with runaway slaves hidden among their load of delivery items would travel down Michigan Avenue as they worked their way to Detroit and the Detroit River which the slaves could cross into Canada and freedom.
 

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