Levi Coffin, a quaker abolitionist was known as "The Grand Central Station" in the underground railroad. He and his wife Katherine comprised numerous tactics to hide escaping slaves in carriages and in their home. Many Quaker families assisted slaves in numerous ways to their road of freedom.
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Many slaves escaped. The name of one who escaped and was recaptured is Moses Roper. There was a society who helped them to escape and they had a system called the "underground railroad" which helped lots of slaves, lead by Harriet Tubman. Another famous escaped slave was Fredrick Douglass, who escaped from the south and fled to the north to become a distinguished abolitionist.
Slave holders were in favor of the Fugitive Slave Law as it required that slaves that escaped to the North would have to be returned to their owners. In the North the anti slavery abolitionists were against the law. They were anti slavery to begin with and wanted slaves who escaped to the North to be considered freed slaves.
Yes, they helped organize the Southern routes for the Underground Railroad and secretly helped slaves escape to freedom in the North.
100,000 slaves escaped through the undreground railroad to freedom 50,000 slaves were reported to have escaped between 1830 and 1860.
The Abolitionists helped slaves to escaped to Canada where slavery was illegal, this action make the southern felt they were robbing their property.
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People who knew that it was evil and wrong to hold other people in slavery, often called Abolitionists, because they wanted to abolish slavery.
They organized the under ground railroad which was a path at which slaves escaped.
Abolitionists were often inspired by narratives written by escaped slaves, known as slave narratives. These first-hand accounts provided insight into the brutality of slavery and helped to build public support for the abolitionist movement.
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Abolitionists
They were called abolitionists.
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Run away slaves escaped through a secret system called the underground railroad. The underground railroad was a connection of people who helped hides the slaves until they could safely make it to the north.
People who helped slaves escape were often referred to as conductors or stationmasters on the Underground Railroad.
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