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Era Two
1800 — 1865

The Conductor

A family. A lantern. A road through the dark to freedom.

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✦ Tap the lantern to see it catch ✦
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November, 1852.
Kentucky, after midnight.

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 are guiding Sarah, her husband James, their nine-year-old daughter Eliza, and their six-year-old son Samuel. They left the plantation three hours ago with what they could carry. The North Star is above you. Canada is five nights away.

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.

· The River Crossed ·

Free.

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.

· A Breath Between ·

Three Small Wonders

Before the questions — tap each object to hear a story the textbooks often leave out.

The North Star
The Lantern
The Rosary
Three to find — then you may begin the questions.
· Knowledge Check ·

Five Questions

To honor the road you walked, answer what you have learned. Your score goes in your passport.

Question 1 of 5
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· A Hidden Truth ·