Timbuctoo

What was the primary reason for Timbuckto? Garrit Smith was an abalitionist. He gave away 120,000 acres of land to the african americans that were searching for a free place to live. Smith also wanted to give land to them because there was a reinstatement of a law to allow black men to vote if they owned $250.00 in land or home. Why did the free slaves call Smiths Land Timbuctoo? Timbuctoo was a huge swath land of albany N.Y., it cantains 6 million acres of land the size of vermont. It was a joint Project Brown did a non prophatable organization. Brown spent most of his time helping to free slaves than with being with his family. Settling was difficult in the area of timbuctoo and smith didnt help with the freed slaves to settle. The freed blacks that got to go to timbuctoo didnt have much supplies for settlement. as more slaves got there they began to build houses and farm but the land that they were given was very difficult to farm, many of the blacks were not farmers. Timbuctoo was made into little self-sustaining town spread across the land over time while blacks were fleaing the south to be free. The towns were built before the civil war started and the emancipation Abraham Lincoln made. Knobody knows why the name timbuctoo was chosen for and it is still a mystery today. While the blacks built a town there they need supplies for the villegers and they didnt want to go to other white civilizations so they ordered things off of catalogs so nobody would know they were black. John Brown also turned him self into a major step for timbuckto. He heard of Garrit's land and what he was doing with it and decided too get some land him self to help teach all of the new residents of the area on how to survive in the environment. His goals were also to get all freed slaves in the area to be able to vote and meet all of the requirements to do so. Slave owners at the time would often use organized violence to keep their slaves in line and under control. captured run aways were often severly beaten, in some cases slaves feet were cut off to prevent them from running again and to show to the other slaves what can happen to them. R's would be branded on slaves faces that were captured to stand for runaway. and others were sold far away so that they could not give information to other slaves about the outside world. The formation of the underground rail road was a major stepping stone for the abolition movement. this "railroad" will come to be a major start in the civil war but the entire movement was for a good cause free more slaves then could be counted and allowing them to live happy productive lives for themselves.

How did the underground rail road function? The under ground railroad which consisted of "agents" and "conductors" would use there house and property to aid the slaves to freedom by providing food shelter information a change of clothes and a place to stay till the sun went down. The people who provided their homes and risked their freedom were considered angles to the slaves. they relied how cruel and inhumane that this could continue and thrive in the united states. they believe in equality through an entire nation based on more then mearly skin color being able to change these rights. the agents and conductors were pioneers of there time and figure heads for and child who knew of what was happening in that time period to look up too and learn from. these people aided countless people into freedom and there by should be praised for helping that many people be able to fallow the american dream.

between 1732 and 1790 there was 7,846 wanted fugitives. all fugitives were runaway slaves: fun facts

"all the white part of mankind that he has ever seen,are enemies to him and his kindred. How can he venture where none but white faces shall greet him?" Lewis Clarkes thoughts after escape.

"I never saw the day since i knew i didn't want to be free." Anthony Bingey, slave