Vocabulary
This word means a runaway slave.
What is Runagate?
The author of the poem "Runagate Runagate" is ________________.
What is Robert Hayden?
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery from this state in 1849.
What is Maryland?
The TWO groups chasing the enslaved people in line 3 of the poem are __________ and _________.
What are hounds and hunters?
This is the exact number of lines in the poem.
What is 72?
This word is another word for being hit with a whip.
What is Lash?
The main character of the poem "Runagate Runagate" is _____________.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This is a secret network of safe houses that eventually led to Canada.
What is The Underground Railroad/Railway?
Finish this line from the poem: "And before I'll be a slave..."
What is "I'll be buried in my grave"?
Harriet Tubman also served as a _________ and a __________ during the Civil War.
What is a Scout and a Spy?
This is another word for Jack O'Lanterns and is also used to refer to evil spirits.
What is Jack-muh-lanterns?
Name one of the three aliases of Harriet Tubman.
What is The General?
What is Moses?
What is Stealer of Slaves?
Harriet Tubman freed over 700 enslaved people from this state.
What is South Carolina?
This is what Harriet Tubman used to handle scared enslaved people who wanted to turn back.
What is a pistol?
Enslaved people were traveling towards freedom on the "ghost story train" at this time.
What is Midnight?
This word means over there.
What is Yonder?
This is the name of the young mulatto with an E branded on her right cheek and an R on the left cheek.
Who is Anna?
The enslaved people in "Runagate, Runagate" are heading here.
What is The North/Freedom?
This is the first stop on the metaphorical "ghost story train" from line 70.
What is Mercy?
The speaker asked this person if they saw "mailed Jehovah coming to deliver me?"
Who is Ezekiel?
This is another word for an overseer of slaves who would whip them.
What is a Driver?
Name one of the people who were in league with or working with Harriet Tubman.
Who is Garrison?
Who is Alcott?
Who is Emerson?
Who is Garret?
Who is Douglass?
Who is Thoreau?
Who is John Brown?
Robert Hayden was born in this city.
What is Detroit, Michigan?
This is the last stop on the metaphorical "ghost story train" from line 70.
What is Hallelujah?
This emotion was the main reason many enslaved people wanted to turn back when escaping.
What is fear?