Historical+Connections


 * Slavery- The connection between slavery and the book is the constant struggle with Arika's life changing experiences and situations she has endured. She made it a goal to escape slavery successfully and make a new life in the free world. This is a connection from the book because Afrika was indeed a runaway slave. She went through the constant fear of getting caught day by day.**
 * Underground Railroad- the underground railroad is a** clandestine travel route for fugitive. **A secret network or route by which a fugitive can be smuggled into or out of a country or moved around safely inside it. This is a connection because Lucy's grandfather was secretly helping out with efforts to help runaway slaves. He helped them have a safe place to stay while on their constant journey to frreedom.**
 * Harriet Tubman-Harriet Tubman is the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's leaders. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. In the book she was trying to help Afrika, along with several other slaves escape to freedoom.**
 * Safe houses- a safe house is a house or other place of refuge where people in danger can hide or meet in secret, like the safe house where Afrika had to stay in the story.**