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It wasn't a railroad, actually. It was the term for the smuggling of slaves from the South across the Mason-Dixon Line (border of Maryland and Pennsylvania that separates the free North from the slave states in the South). And there was innumerable times that slaves were smuggled (often hiding out in sympathetic white people's homes to avoid "slave catchers" that caught and returned slaves to their owner for reward)

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