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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 several...
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- Isaac Hopper. Underground Railroad. Quakers played a huge role in the formation of the Underground Railroad, with George Washington complaining as early as 1786 that a “society of Quakers, formed for such purposes, have attempted to liberate” a neighbor’s slave.
- John Brown. Abolitionist John Brown, c. 1846. Like his father before him, John Brown actively partook in the Underground Railroad, harboring runaways at his home and warehouse and establishing an anti-slave catcher militia following the 1850 passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
- Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman: Soldier/Spy. Born enslaved on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Harriet Tubman endured constant brutal beatings, one of which involved a two-pound lead weight and left her suffering from seizures and headaches for the rest of her life.
- Thomas Garrett. On the way north, Tubman often stopped at the Wilmington, Delaware, home of her friend Thomas Garrett, a Quaker “stationmaster” who claimed to have aided some 2,750 fugitive slaves prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Oct 29, 2009 · Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War. She was also a nurse, a Union spy ...
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- Burlington. The GPO exchange at the Central Government War Headquarters aka “Burlington.” In the event of a Cold War-era nuclear strike, the most important members of the British government would have retreated to a 35-acre underground complex located 100 feet beneath the village of Corsham.
- Orvieto. Underground Below The City Of Orvieto, Italy. The Italian hilltop town of Orvieto is known for its white wines and picturesque architecture, but its most mysterious wonders lie underground.
- Derinkuyu. Derinkuyu Underground City is an ancient multilevel underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevsehir Province, Turkey. The volcanic rock landscape of Turkey’s Cappadocia region is pockmarked with several different underground cities, but perhaps none is as vast or as impressive as Derinkuyu.
- Petra. A classic view of El Deir, The Monastery in Petra. Famed for its cameo in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Petra is an ancient caravan city tucked away in the mountains of southern Jordan.
Jan 30, 2020 · The story of Washington’s underground spy network, and how it helped Americans win their revolution, is replete with intrigue: letters written in invisible ink; a rare female agent who went by...
Nov 24, 2009 · At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of the city’s innovative new rapid transit system: the subway.
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Oct 24, 2018 · Map showing routes of the Underground Railroad, used by enslaved people to escape into the free states of the United States or Canada, between 1830 -1865.
