For this booktalk, I’m going to ask you close your eyes and
keep them shut. I want you to pretend that you’re a young African-American
slave, and you and your family are trying to escape to freedom. You’re
terrified. It’s dark, and you have to be absolutely silent and creep out of the
master’s house and into the woods. You don’t know which is more horrifying: the
journey you’re about to take, or the prospect of getting caught. The other
slaves’ eyes are full of fear, and so are your parents. You don’t know where you
are going, but you do know that you’ll always travel by night and you must be
absolutely silent no matter what. You have to be braver than you think you can
be, because now you’re part of the slaves’ underground railroad to freedom.
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