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Q: How is the term Underground Railroad an example of figurative language?
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Who were the people who made the Underground Railroad work?

The people who made the Underground Railroad work were called "Conductors". An example of a Conductor is Harriet Tubman.


What are three example of antislavery literature?

Uncle Tom's Cabin Sojourner Truth Ain't I a Women


How did the underground railroads look like?

The Underground Railroad was a network of escape routes that were described using railroad terms. 'Passengers' were runaway slaves fleeing from the South. Their guides were called 'conductors' and they led them from one 'station' to another. Escape routes stretched from the southern slave states into the North and on to Canada. Fugitives usually traveled secretly at night, and were hidden in 'safe houses', barns, and haylofts in the day. Thousands of antislavery campaigners, both black and white, risked their lives to operate the railway. There was no "map" as the people involved had to keep everything secret. Directions were passed orally from person to person as the need arose.


What is an underground road called?

Just as there are railroads there are railroad stations. In the big cities, the majority of slaves would stop to rest, get food, and prepare to continue their journey for freedom farther beyond the Northern areas of the United States. Such places were considered, "stations." For many slaves decided to run and settle in Canada, which slavery was forbidden, and the slaves knew that they would be free forever. So, as an example, a slave who ran away from his master in South Carolina, had to go along way to make it to the Canadian border. Therefore, the stations, would help him on his journey, as he would reach the larger cities.


What did Harriet Tubman achieve?

Harriet Tubman, after escaping from slavery herself, returned secretly several times to Southern states. First she brought out her own family members, then acted as part of the Underground Railroad taking escaped slaves to freedom in the North. She also helped some slaves get to Canada to avoid men hired to recapture them. In all, she assisted in obtaining freedom for as many as seventy slaves, helped many others find employment and assistance, and set an example for those who supported the end of slavery.She led slaves north to freedom and used the "underground" railroad to move them north. This was a series of stops where they hid as they went north.Harriet Tubman was a woman who helped slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman was in charge of the Underground Railroad. She helped slaves make it to the north. The Underground Railroad was a secret-passage way that helped slaves, have better lives's also didn't like Slave Owners because they were the people who captured slaves and sold them. You should find out more information. I know this because she is my Great Great Great Great Great cousin.i doubt it i mean come on she is dead for crying out loudHarriet Tumbman led the Underground Railroad. She was the Counductor for the Underground Rialroadshe freed over three hundred slaves in the underground railroadHarriet Tubman`s accomplishments include the following:She ran the Underground RailroadShe directed 3K (3,000) slaves to freedomShe was a cook or nurse for the Union Army, then an armed scout and spy.Find more on Wikipedia, or Google.saved thousands of slaves.Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave herself, was a principle in the Underground Railroad. She was a tireless abolitionist and brought countless slaves to freedom via the Railroad. She also raised funds for Radical Abolitionist John Brown and his slave insurrection movement. She worked for the Union, without pay, serving as a nurse and doing whatever else she could.Harriet Tubman has inspired the movies, "A Woman Called Moses," and "The Quest For Freedom." She conducted on Underground Railroad, and was a nurse and spy for the Union. She raised much money for the poor and supported women equality.ANSWER:Major accomplishments of Harriet Tubman included...She was a black American whose daring rescues helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom. She became the most famous leader of the underground railroad, which aided slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. Blacks called her Moses, after the Biblical figure who led the Jews from Egypt.Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849, and went to Philadelphia, via the underground railroad. She vowed that she would return to Maryland, and help other slaves escape. Tubman made her first trip back shortly after Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This law made it a crime to help a runaway slave. Tubman returned 18 more times during the 1850's, and helped about 300 slaves escape.Harriet Tubman led her parents to freedom in Auburn, New York, in 1857.Tubman also became active in the women's rights movement in New England, and New York.During the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman served as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army in South Carolina. During one military campaign, she helped free more that 750 slaves.After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn, where she helped raise money for black schools. In 1908, she established a home Auburn, for elderly and needy blacks. It became known as the Harriet Tubman Home. The people of Auburn erected a plaque in her honor. A US postage stamp bearing her portrait was issued in 1978.Harriet Tubman died, in 1913, and she was buried with military honors.Harriet Tubman led over 300 slaves to freedom. She married John Tubman. Afterward, she worked as a spy, soldier, and a nurse. she also looked for more slaves and used the underground railroad to free them she was not selfish at all she left and then came back for other family's because she was tired of the servants doing all the work for the people telling them what to do so she went to the underground railroad told them if they can stay there so they can't find them so went by wagon by land sea anything she was very generous not to just give freedom 2 herself.her accompplishment was to free all slaves in philadelphiashe was a slave that took other slaves away from their homesshe gave freedom to the slavesHarriet Tubman was an amazing person who risked her life to save enslaved blacks she be-leaved everyone should be treated the same and she conducted the underground railroad to do so

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