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Underground Railroad Wikipedia ~ The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid1800s and used by AfricanAmerican slaves to escape into free states and Canada The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees

Underground Railroad United States history Britannica ~ 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

The Underground Railroad National Geographic Society ~ The Underground Railroad was the network used by enslaved black Americans to obtain their freedom in the 30 years before the Civil War 18601865 The “railroad” used many routes from states in the South which supported slavery to “free” states in the North and Canada

Underground Railroad ~ Underground Railroad summary The Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of meeting places secret routes passageways and safe houses used by slaves in the to escape slave holding states to northern states and Canada

Underground Railroad National Park Service ~ The individuals who sought this freedom from enslavement known as freedom seekers and those who assisted along the way united together to become what is known as the Underground Railroad

What was the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman ~ The Underground Railroad was not located underground nor was it a railroad It was symbolically underground as the network’s clandestine activities were secret and illegal so they had to remain “underground” to help fugitive slaves stay out of sight

The Underground Railroad PBS ~ The Underground Railroad a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada was not run by any single organization or person Rather it consisted of many individuals many whites but predominently black who knew only of the local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation

The Underground Railroad Pulitzer Prize ~ The Underground Railroad is an American masterpiece as much a searing document of a cruel history as a uniquely brilliant work of fictionMichael Schaub NPR “Far and away the most anticipated literary novel of the year The Underground Railroad marks a new triumph for Whitehead…A book that resonates with deep emotional timbre