Elijah of buxton timeline

  • Event jefferson davis

    Event jefferson davis
    jefferson davis started the war by arguing with the secession and then the war
    started.
  • Novel:Jefferson davis

    Novel:Jefferson davis
    Once the slaves heard about the war they knew that they where going to be put to work so they ran away
  • civil war railroad

    civil war railroad
    It was used to transport slaves underground but then was abandoned and the slaves took it as a home to live in secret.
  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet  Tubman
    Harriet
    Tubman was the one to rescue 300 slaves from plantations and bring them to the railroads
  • Novel:Tubman

    Novel:Tubman
    Tubman brought slaves to the abandon railroads to live and Elisha got a lot of friends and family from Tubman
  • Novel:abandon civil war railroads

    Novel:abandon civil war railroads
    Elijah was born in a secret slave home in a abandon free slave railroad.
  • Civil War Laws

    Civil War Laws
    Civil War Laws
    They were not fair to slaves because the laws would let slave owners bet them up in auctions.
  • Novel:civil war laws

    Novel:civil war laws
    When the civil war occurred slave auctions went up and made slaves more valuable and that made the railroads more valuable too
  • Novel:Civil war populations

    Novel:Civil war populations
    Elijah made more friends from all the free slaves coming into the railroad systems
  • slave population

    slave population
    slave population
    By the middle of the war 12% of the country was slaves. The secret slave railroads were becoming more and more popular.