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network of people?? i don't know what you mean by network of people but Harriet Tubman helped the slaves be free!! is this an ok awnser?
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers. They also helped many slaves escape to Canada.
In the US it was called the Underground Railroad
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers.
The underground railroad was an informal network of people who, although in violation of the "Fugitive Slave Act" helped escaped slaves reach freedom in Northern States or Canada.The underground railroad wasn't actually a railroad nor was it underground. It was actually a system where slaves would go from house to house until they could escape to freedom. The underground railroad was an escape route for slaves to travel from safe house to safe house and head to the north.It was an 'underground' organization. That is, it was not publicized, and kept secret from authorities at the time. It was called a railroad, because the way it was organized was akin to the way railroads were run. With various stops along the way (Safe houses) and conductors leading them (Often born-free blacks).Harriet Tubman was a major figure in the history of the underground railroad.The Underground Railroad was used to help slaves in the U.S. escape to states that were free.
The Underground Railroad .
she helped a lot of slaves escape from their plantation to freedom
The Underground Railroad
network of people?? i don't know what you mean by network of people but Harriet Tubman helped the slaves be free!! is this an ok awnser?
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
The Fugitive Slave Act required Northern states to help capture and return escaped slaves, undermining the efforts of the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom. This led to increased tensions between abolitionists in the North and slaveholders in the South. The Underground Railroad had to adapt by increasing secrecy and expanding its network to evade capture and continue helping slaves escape.
The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to address issues surrounding slavery. It required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, regardless of where they were found in the United States, and imposed penalties on those who helped fugitive slaves escape.
It is better to be the one who helped a fugitive reach safety because slaves would have been caught anyways and to help a slave escape, it is better because you will be hiden and eventually their masters will give up looking for them. There, now you can describe it. ;P
People who helped slaves escape were often referred to as conductors or stationmasters on the Underground Railroad.
the underground rail road was not a place but a network of people who helped slaves escape to the north and Canada
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers. They also helped many slaves escape to Canada.
It was Harriet Tubman who helped the slaves escape.