A family. A lantern. A road through the dark to freedom.
You are a conductor on the Underground Railroad. You have done this before. Tonight you will do it again — with more at stake than last time.
You will face five decisions. There are no wrong answers — only the choices real conductors had to make, in the dark, with lives depending on them.
Sarah falls to her knees on the far bank. James holds both children. No one speaks for a long time.
They are in Canada. They are free.
Historians estimate roughly 100,000 people attempted the Underground Railroad in the decades before the Civil War. About 30,000 reached freedom. Every one of them made the kind of choices you just faced — in the dark, on foot, with everything at stake.
Before the questions — tap each object to hear a story the textbooks often leave out.
To honor the road you walked, answer what you have learned. Your score goes in your passport.