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Who was a conductor on the underground railroad?
The most popular conductor of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman. She helped so many slaves to escape from freedom. She was also saved by William Still (another conductor) to be freed from slavery.
Why did slaves make the underground railroad?
I think you've interpreted the term a bit too literally. It wasn't a real railroad, it wasn't underground, and it wasn't built by slaves. It was a network of escape routes organized by anti-slavery activists, including both whites and free blacks, in the years leading up to the Civil War. Escaped slaves would be moved from one "safe house" to another, often at night, so that they could eventually make their way to a northern state where they would be free and out of range of southern slave hunters. Because the activity was designed to be out of sight as much as possible and so many escapees were being rescued, the popular press compared it to a railroad that was running underground. In fact, to look at it from the perspective of someone who knows about real railroads, at that time the idea of an actual underground railroad was a complete fantasy - the technology didn't even exist until the 1860s. But the slave escape routes were sufficiently successful that the public decided only such a science-fiction concept could be capable of moving so many people with such stealth.
Why did the underground railroad have to be so secretive?
Abolitionists (people who were against slavery) were using the Underground Railroad to smuggle fugitive slaves north to Canada. Slaves were considered property, so to help them escape was like stealing. If discovered, a fugitive slave could be killed or brought home and beaten. Some even had their hands or feet cut off so they couldn't run away. The abolitionists would be thrown in jail or worse.
How did the slaves hide on the Underground Railroad?
The slaves would travel at night, so as not to be seen, and during the day there were houses or barns or buissness owned by abolitionists where the could stay and hide until nightfall
Where did the African American slaves travel to and why?
African Americans traveled to Canada because there was no slavery there and they traveled there because their masters treated them very badly. They got whipped and beaten even if they rested from work for a minute. So they escaped through the underground railroad and they came to Canada.
