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Oct 29, 2009 · The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. It developed as a convergence of...
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada.
Oct 19, 2023 · Underground Railroad. noun. system used by abolitionists between 1800-1865 to help enslaved African Americans escape to free states. During the era of slavery, the Underground Railroad was a network of routes, places, and people that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to the North.
Jul 22, 2022 · The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Wherever slavery existed, there were efforts to escape.
Apr 19, 2024 · 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.
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Oct 19, 2023 · The Underground Railroad was a network of people working to take enslaved people from the southern United States to freedom in the northern U.S. and Canada. Map by the National Geographic Society. Background Info. Vocabulary.
The Underground Railroad. Diane Miller. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.974. Published online: 19 October 2022. Summary. Africans and their descendants enslaved in the western hemisphere resisted their status in several ways. One of the most consequential methods was self-liberation.
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