Underground Railroad

"Give me liberty or give me death!" These moving words by Patrick Henry succeeded in inspiring American Patriots towards revolution. It was this idea of liberty at all costs that essentially founded the great United States of America. Ironically, it was precisely this principle which they fought for so passionately that they would deny to African Americans for approximately 300 years by making them slaves. However, their hypocritical efforts to suppress the African American race did not succeed in exterminating the very feeling that they themselves had nearly perfected. Regardless of their…