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What was a slave that was trying to escape to the north called?
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How many slaves tried to escape?
According to historians, hundreds of thousands of slaves attempted to escape their enslaved condition since the onset of slavery. This became a problem for many slave-owners and therefore, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed for slave catchers to travel north of the U.S. to capture runaway slaves.
What area did slaves see as an escape from slavery during the early 1700s?
The slaves saw the north as an escape from slavery during the early 1700's. Most of the slaves were owned in the south of the United States and a slave had a chance at freedom in the north.
Why did slaves wait to escape at night?
If they tried to escape in the day there slave masters would see them and call for help to catch the slave
Why did the fugitive slave act force many runaway slaves up to Canada rather than staying up north?
Because It Was A Better Escape Route
How did the American slaves escape slavery?
they secretly go to path that leads to the north mostly on foot and whenever they see white slave owners they hide and usually they follow the path of the mason dixon line cause they thought it was freedom but slave hunters can still catch theses slaves from escaping farther north so slaves really escaped farther north for slave hunters not to catch them
What did a slave have to do to be free?
The slave has to either work a certain number of years, or escape and go to the north.
What is the punishment in Pakistan for a slave trying to escape?
I didn't know that there were any slaves in Pakistan in modern times.
How did slave escape in the daytime?
they didnt escape in the daytime, they escaped in the night, so the slave owners couldn't see them
How many slaves tried to escape?
According to historians, hundreds of thousands of slaves attempted to escape their enslaved condition since the onset of slavery. This became a problem for many slave-owners and therefore, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed for slave catchers to travel north of the U.S. to capture runaway slaves.
What area did slaves see as an escape from slavery during the early 1700s?
The slaves saw the north as an escape from slavery during the early 1700's. Most of the slaves were owned in the south of the United States and a slave had a chance at freedom in the north.
Why people will be whipped if they teach a slave and why it is illegal to teach a slave?
They will escape
Where did the slave escape?
the underground railroad
Why Grandville T Woods is not a slave?
his parents had him after they esacped or their parents escape but to make this short he was born where you were not allowed to have slaves aka north of the coutry
Why did slaves wait to escape at night?
If they tried to escape in the day there slave masters would see them and call for help to catch the slave
Were there slaves in colonial North Carolina?
yes, actually it was called the slave colony.
Who was the farmer slave who lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on an escape route called the Underground Railroad?
Answers;; Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman how did she help others to be free?
Harriet Tubman was a slave. She escaped slavery. But instead of leaving for the North. She helped other slaves escape too. She helped the slaves escape by using the Underground Railroad.
