What is underground to Canada about?
"Underground To Canada" is about a young girl named Julilly who
got taken away from her mother (Mammy Sally). She gets taken away
to a plantation were she doesn't get very much to eat and picks
cotton all day long. Julilly meets a friend there name Liza, who
tells Julilly about a few people who are trying to escape to
Cananda-The promise land. Julilly some how some way, gets mixed up
with thoes people and is trying to escape to Canada. With Adam,
Lester, Liza, Massa Ross and the Underground To Canada crew, will
Julilly ever get to Canada, or even more, will she get back to
Mammy Sally?
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Julilly is a slave at the Hensojn plantation, with her mother,
Mammy Sally. When a Slave trader from the deep South comes to
choose his field hands, he rips Julilly from the arms of her loving
mother and sends her into his cart. Both of them are devastated.
When she arrives at the Riley plantation in Mississippi after the
long trip, Julilly meets Liza, and they become instantly
inseperable. They fantasize about the promised land, Canada. When
Massa Ross comes to visit and chooses Lester Adam and Ben to show
him the best "bird watching" area, He really secretly tells them
how to escape to Canada. Lester immediately tells Julilly, who
tells Liza. 3 days later after hearing 3 calls of the whippoorwill,
the meet Massa Ross in the forest, to create a plan. Liza and
Julilly disguise themselves as boys, and the run away. On the trip,
they overcome so many obstacles, and take so many risks, but in the
end they make it. However, they could never have made it without
the help of the "Underground Railway". On the way, Julilly and Liza
encounter some horrible news. Adam died of blood poisoning.
Fortunately though, Lester has made it, and has a job in the town
of St-Catharines. When Julilly and Liza make it to St Catharines,
Angry Lester becomes sheepish as he tells Julilly about a surprise
for her. As he is telling her, someone comes out of the kitchen.
Julilly is overjoyed, because it is none other than MAMMY
SALLY!