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Unit 6: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad (excerpt)

Learn these words from the excerpt of the biography by Ann Petry (Inside: Level A, Unit 6).

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Here are our links to the selections of "Struggle for Freedom": Escaping to Freedom; Follow the Drinking Gourd, Brave Butterflies, Farah Ahmedi, Seeking Freedom, Harriet Tubman

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  1. slave
    a person who is forcibly held in servitude
  2. freedom
    the power to act, speak, or think without being controlled
  3. arrest
    take into custody
  4. fugitive
    someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
  5. vicinity
    a surrounding or nearby region
  6. murmur
    a low continuous indistinct sound
  7. incomprehensible
    difficult to understand
  8. vivid
    evoking lifelike images within the mind
  9. pursuit
    the act of following in an effort to overtake or capture
  10. pursue
    follow in an effort to capture
Created on Fri Aug 05 18:28:30 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 17 15:33:03 EDT 2016)

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