Today, the elementary class took a field trip to the Underground Railroad Living Museum. The trip was planned by Mrs. Friday as part of Black History Month to help the Starting Point Kids understand what slaves really experienced as they escaped to freedom.
Most of us growing up in Detroit know that the First Congregational Church was a stop on the underground railroad as slaves traveled North to Canada. The Underground Railroad Tour is a storytelling simulation of the original experience. Participates have a "slave shackle" placed on their wrists to symbolize their entry into slavery. As escaping slaves, they become "passengers" on the Underground Railroad led by a conductor who helps them hide out in caves, cross the Ohio Deep River, take refuge in a safe house station, move onto "Midnight", the code name for Detroit, and then onto Canada and freedom.
The kids loved the field trip and they were all treated to their own Underground Railroad t-shirts as a special keepsake of this experience.
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