Quindaro Research Checklist
Write a summary of the underground railroad site as described there.
________ Follow the Drinking Gourd
- History
________Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Songs of Freedom
_________Hariet Tubman's Escape
_________THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD _ What
Is it?
__________Abolitionists - Underground Railroad
Conductors
________ Summary of the Underground
Railroad
___________List the characteristics of an
underground railroad site
Write a summary of the Quindaro' importance as an underground
railroad site as described there.
_________Greenbaum, Susan. The Afro-American Community in Kansas City, Kansas:
______ "Diligent Search, But No Tunnel"
- - -. "The Tunnel, No Legend". 28 October 1959.
- - -. " Neglected Point of Interest." 28 October 1959.
- - -.
"Tunnel Dispute Rages". November 8, 1959.
______Mudge,
Melville, ed. "Benjamin Franklin Mudge: A Letter from
Quindaro," Kansas
History 19 No. 3
(Winter 1990) : 218-222. Discusses slave catchers and slave
escapes in Quindaro.
_____Nichols,
Clarina I. H. "Letter of Mrs. C. I. H. Nichols,"
Wyandotte Gazette. 29
December 1882.
Discusses slaves being hidden in Quindaro.
_________Classify the sources as oral, written, primary or Secondary
_________ Gather the evidence that Quindaro was an important stop on the underground railroad.