Thursday, March 31, 2011

i made a poster for Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad. i named the band Araminta because that was her maiden name, Araminta Ross, and i thought that was a really unique and cool name. the date of the concert, January 29, 1850, is significant because that is the date congress created the Compromise of 1850, which split states to be free or slave and initiated the Fugitive Slave Act, making the need for the railroad greater. the location is maryland because that is where the underground railroad supposedly began and where Harriet Tubman worked to abolish slavery the most and the maryland theatre was there in 1850 already. I added Issac Hopper and Frederick Douglass because they were the key leading figures of the abolitionist movement and worked with Tubman helping slaves escape with through the "underground railroad" 

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