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For slaves to escape to freedom in canada
The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
no. the underground railroad was a secret (underground) chain of people who would help slaves reach freedom. the "railroad" part of the underground railroad was simply a way to refer to the chain of people that runaway slaves would stay with.
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Abolitionists, who operated the system of safe-houses known as the Underground Railroad, to smuggle slaves to freedom in Canada.
To escape to Canada. They couldn't simply travel through the north because of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Part of the Compromise of 1850, the act said that Northerners were obliged to turn in runaway slaves to their southern owners. Fugitive means runaway. The abolitionists ran the underground railroad to help the slaves secretly (hence the term underground) escape to freedom.
It helped slaves in the South escape to the North for freedom.
Harriett Tubman