Underground Railroad Vocabulary

people who fought to make slavery illegal

• enslaved

• fugitive

• conductor

• abolitionist

a person who works to bring about social or political change

• activist

• fugitive

• conductor

• abolitionist

to direct or manage

• disguise

• devised

• conduct

• runaway

a person who helped to direct slaves along the Underground Railroad

• escapee

• activist

• runaway

• conductor

to act in a way that causes pain or distress to others

• cruelly

• gully

• lullaby

• injustice

to dress in a way to hide your identity

• annoyed

• disguise

• slave

• meager

the state of being owned or forced to work for another

• fugitive

• injustice

• enslaved

• whipped

people who have broken free from something

• enslaved

• escapee

• illegal

• activist

to run from something, often from a dangerous situation

• muttered

• gully

• enslaved

• flee

a small valley or trench created by the action of water wearing away land

• gully

• inn

• hound

• scent