Exactly what do you mean by this? I don't know. But Harriet did not lead the slaves to any star. She led them through an underground railroad.
yes they did use the north star
yes.
They were traveling north, so the North Star was their guide.
Because the tip of the Big Dipper is the North Star, and they use that as their compass.
Frederick Douglass called his newspaper The North Star because the north star was the star that fugitive slaves on the underground railroad used to guide themselves to freedom.
The North had less use for slaves than the South did, and many Northern people helped slaves gain freedom.
Those using the stars as navigation, such as sailor who have no other landmarks to navigate with, can find the brightest star (the North Star) with relative ease and use its near-unerroring position in the sky, to devine the desired direction of their destination.
They were traveling north, so the North Star was their guide.
The North Star
The quilts had pattens in them that showed the way to the North Star.
Slaves travelled by night and followed the North Star.
Because the tip of the Big Dipper is the North Star, and they use that as their compass.
They would follow the north star which would lead them north to canada.
slaves had to run tored the north star to get free
it lead slaves north tord canada
the north star was used as basically a compass that helped determine which way South, West,and East.used by many slaves like harriet Tubman in the underground railroad
The North Star did not help end slavery, but it did help slaves escape. Escaping slaves in the U.S. had to reach the northern states where slavery was illegal. To find their way, they navigated using the north star and the Big Dipper, which points to it.
Frederick Douglass called his newspaper The North Star because the north star was the star that fugitive slaves on the underground railroad used to guide themselves to freedom.
they would follow the north star.