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Oct 29, 2009 · The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
Jan 27, 2016 · The Underground Railroad is shrouded in myth. Historians have puzzled over the extent of its reach, organization, and the individuals involved. It was, after all, a secret, outlaw enterprise.
Oct 25, 2024 · Underground Railroad, in the United States, a system existing in the Northern states before the Civil War by which escaped slaves from the South were secretly helped by sympathetic Northerners, in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Acts, to reach places of safety in the North or in Canada.
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Aug 16, 2019 · The Underground Railroad was the name given to a loose network of activists that helped freedom-seeking enslaved people from the American South find lives of freedom in northern states or across the international border in Canada. The term was coined by abolitionist William Still.
Feb 18, 2015 · Thanks to the Underground Railroad, thousands of fugitives were able to escape bondage in slave-holding states. It's rather disconcerting to discover that one of George Washington's main...
Feb 17, 2015 · For most people today —as for most Americans in the 1840s and 1850s—the phrase Underground Railroad conjures images of trapdoors, flickering lanterns, and moonlit pathways through the woods....
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The story of the Underground Railroad lived on in the memory of families and communities across the country, and thus oral traditions are often an important tool for uncovering Underground Railroad history.
