The Underground Railroad was used to help slaves in the U.S. escape to states that were free, or to Canada. The railroad was a system of safe houses and secret routes.
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it was a network of secret routes and safes houses used by 19 century
Mining town. The railroad brought prosperity to towns on railroad routes, while miners struggled to survive as the price of ore fell.
The underground railroad was neither a railroad with engine or rails, nor was is underground as in a tunnel or cave, but it 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.
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was used to help slaves in the U.S. escape to states that were free, or to Canada. The railroad was a system of safe houses and secret routes.
The Underground Railroad was not a person or a railroad, it was a network of secret routes that allowed slaves to escape to free states in the mid 1800s, created by Harriet Tubman.
The Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad, so there were no tracks. It was a metaphor for the routes that escaped slaves took on their journey North.
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the pony express The Underground Railroad.
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Safe houses where people would protect/hide runaway slaves.