Answer The term was used to describe the underground network of safe houses used to transport slaves out of the Southern slave-states to the free-states of the North during the Civil War period.
The underground railroad isn't actually a railroad, it's just a term that meant that their activities had to be carried out in secret. The passageway ranged from 14 different Northern states and through Canada. This passageway helped slaves escape.
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
to provide safe passage for fugitive slaves to the North
No it is known as the underground railroad as it was hidden from sight
The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad.
The underground railroad happened in the 1830
The Underground Railroad was started in the 1810. The Underground Railroad was responsible for helping thousands of slaves find freedom.
There was no underground railroad in other countries. The underground railroad was not a real railroad, but one that was a series of stops that moved escaped slaves north.
The "underground railroad" is a term used, in a broad sense, to refer to secret routes and safehouses to assist escaped slaves. There was no single "underground railroad". While there were notable people involved in this, there was no "founder" of it because the term is too broad.
No it is known as the underground railroad as it was hidden from sight
The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad.
the underground railroad started in 1816 and ended in 1856.
The underground railroad happened in the 1830
The Underground Railroad was started in the 1810. The Underground Railroad was responsible for helping thousands of slaves find freedom.
There was no underground railroad in other countries. The underground railroad was not a real railroad, but one that was a series of stops that moved escaped slaves north.
Harriet Tubman is often referred to as the "Moses" or "Conductor" of the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of enslaved individuals to freedom. However, the term "father" is not commonly used to describe any particular individual associated with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a collective network of abolitionists and conductors who worked together to assist enslaved individuals in their escape to freedom.
Yes, he was the superintendent of the Underground Railroad.
I believe that they sang and/or danced, in the underground railroad
Yes he was a conductor in the Underground Railroad. We read it in the book "The Story of the Underground Railroad" by R. Conrad Stein
The Underground Railroad wasn't an actual railroad; therefore, it didn't have any conductors. Metaphorically, you could consider Harriet Tubman a conductor of the Underground Railroad.