Notes from Underground

ethnicity is concerned, he is Black. He is the son of Joseph Dapaah. He has two siblings, Heather (owns her own hair salon) and Edward (appeared on the YouTube series). In 2014, Dapaah graduated with the Bachelor degree in Theater Arts and Acting from Brunel University London. Career Michael Dappah started appearing as a motivational speaker soon after…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was written based on the Civil War roughly around the 1800’s. Harriet Stowe wrote this novel due to the amount of tragic behaviors that were taken into place of slavery and the way African Americans were treated in the south. Harriet made her beliefs about how slavery was pure evil and her rebel against slavery all into a story called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet made all the characters in her novel nonfictional but, everything she…

November 21, 2015 Underground Railroad The underground railroads helped many slaves escape to freedom. Some people believe that the underground railroads did not involve many people. Some also believe and also question whether the underground railroads ever happened. There has been knowledge about the underground railroads that has changed from then to now based on new information that has come out recently. Information and articles written about important leaders from the underground railroads…

Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary heroine who devoted her life to assisting others gain their freedom from slavery through the Underground Railroad. Numerous events has transpired throughout Harriet Tubman’s early life. Furthermore, during Tubman’s difficult and tiresome journey, events occurred that forever altered her livelihood. Lastly, in Harriet Tubman’s later life, a multitude of various happenings took place with caused her to become an important figure in the fight to appeal slavery.…

escape on the Underground Railroad in 1849. Pilots would occasionally abet her along the way; however, she had to figure the rest out on her own. A man gave Harriet a disguise that made her appear more manly and well dressed because there were posters and people out to find her. The reward for capturing her was 40,000 dollars. An organization on the Thomas Plantation hired the top detective to locate Harriet Tubman. Regardless, she did not let the intimidation and threat stop her from reaching…

violent crime, yet what if these were just smaller parts of a much bigger picture and you were told that Chicago had one of the most thriving underground economies in the United States? What if this underground economy had more advantages to it than meets the eye? It goes without saying that any gang-related activity is unethical, yet what makes that so? An underground economy is defined, as “illegal economic activity which entails transactions where a good/service is illicit, or the transaction…

This day was very long, exhausting, and tiring, but I did see a lot, though. We decided to finish up by going and eating some take out Chinese food from a fast food restaurant called, “Wasabi”. The guys there already upsized our order since it was the end of the day and they didn’t give a crap since the food was going to be thrown out anyways. This takeout box was really big and I honestly couldn’t…

Thomas Garrett’s role in the Underground Railroad was a “station master”, and he sheltered thousands slaves on their way to free territory. William Still, born a free black man, was an “agent”, meaning he helped fugitives find the railroad, as well as recorded their experiences.…

collaboration with the United States Commission on Civil Rights. President Lincoln developed the Emancipation Proclamation while living at the Cottage in the summer of 1862. For many years that fact was recognized and appreciated. A December 1936 article from The Washington Post described a woman’s pilgrimage to the Cottage to "pay tribute" to Lincoln on the Proclamation's 74th anniversary. The woman, a Mrs. Thomas Chase, was 92 years old and had been born into slavery in Virginia. In the spring…

The book titled Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner examines in depth, as the name suggests, the Underground Railroad, but it also discusses the numerous abolitionist associations and the people, black and white, who conducted them. These abolitionist organizations and the Underground Railroad often went hand in hand with the abolitionist organizations assisting runaways and fugitives in their search for a new, better life either in the North or…