| A | B |
|---|
| slavery | A system in which a person was bought and sold to work for free for another person. |
| Underground Railroad | A secret way to get from the South and slavery to the North and freedom. (not an actual railroad) |
| abolitionist | A person who was against slavery. |
| agent | A person who helped fugitive (run away) slaves know where to go and who would would help them. |
| conductor | A person who took slaves along the Underground Railroad path to freedom. |
| Drinking Gourd | The North Star and The Big Dipper. Slaves used it to guide them as they made their way north to freedom. |
| Jordan River | The Ohio River (the geographical divide between free and slave states. |
| Promised Land | Canada, which symbolizd the land of freedom for fugitive slaves. |
| station | Safe houses, churches, or any place of safety along the route to freedom. |
| passenger | A runaway slave who is trying to get to freedom in the north, also known as a Freedom Seeker. |
