Thursday, May 10
10:45 a.m.
Highland Elementary School, 67001 Darmstadt Rd.
Students at Highland Elementary School are learning what slavery was like in the United States with the help of the Underground Railroad Traveling Trunk. The trunk, provided by a grant from Old National Bank, is on loan to Highland from Lyles Consolidated School in Lyles Station, Ind. (located near Princeton, Ind.) The trunk contains a pair of shackles, cotton, underground railroad quilt blocks, union and confederate coins, slave reward posters and many books. The trunk will help students learn first-hand about slavery in the United States and the African American struggle for freedom as they finish reading the book, Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun, tomorrow.
Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun is about a young boy who is transported back to the days of slavery and experiences what life was like on the plantation. As students finish the book tomorrow, they will use items from the trunk to help bring the story to life.
Highland is the first school to use the Underground Railroad Traveling Trunk, provided by Lyles School which is one of the last remaining African American settlements in the state.
