No Compromise

On This Day In History
1820: The Senate passes the Missouri Compromise

Quote Of The Day
"Those whom we shall authorise to set in motion the machine of free government beyond the Mississippi will, in many respects, decide the destiny of millions."
(John W. Taylor)

This is a wonderful book by Ellen Levine which I use to teach my Year Four class about slavery and the underground railroad. Henry's Freedom Box is based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden crate.

A Change Is Gonna Come