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4 days ago · International Underground Railroad Memorial in Windsor, Ontario John Brown participated in the Underground Railroad as an abolitionist. British North America (present-day Canada) was a desirable destination, as its long border gave many points of access, it was farther from slave catchers , and it was beyond the reach of the United States' Fugitive Slave Acts .
5 days ago · The Underground Railroad was a network of people and places that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the 1800s through the end of the Civil War. There were many paths to freedom ...
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5 days ago · The Underground Railroad was not a physical railroad but a network of secret routes and safe houses. Tubman, known as the "Moses of her people," used her courage and resourcefulness to guide others to safety. She relied on the help of abolitionists, free African Americans, and even some sympathetic whites.
3 days ago · York Dispatch. 0:00. 0:36. Union Lutheran Church will screen a new documentary about the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania at 6:15 p.m. on Oct. 30. The film, “A History of the ...
4 days ago · The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-1800s, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states, Canada and Nova Scotia with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. This document is specific to the railroad ...
5 days ago · Description. Marker Text: Bishop William Hanby, (1807-1880) courageous and of strong convictions, publicly voiced his scorn at a law that made it a felony to give food to a hungry slave, or shelter to a friendless man. From pulpit, platform, and workbench he condemned the inhumane Fugitive Slave law of 1850. “We may be bound by a man-made law ...
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4 days ago · Underground on Duffield Street, a trap door, exit shafts, covered wells, and other “architectural anomalies,” were used to substantiate the Underground Railroad claims that were at the basis ...
