There is always danger involved for those participating in a covert action. If the slaves or their guides were caught, a return to slavery, beatings, prison, and even death could well have been the result.
The underground railway was NOT underground. It was a trail leading the black to safety.
I am between stations of the Underground Railway.
the rails and engines accourding to Julilly from underground to canada by barbara smucker is the underground railroad or railway.
The underground railway was neither a railroad or underground. It was a way of moving escaped Southern American slaves from safe-house to safe-house until they reached freedom either in the Northern satates or Canada. The railway refers to the fact that it was a route to pass then along in the same way that "The road to success is hard work" does not relate to a road but a method. The term "underground" refers to the clandestine or hidden organization that helped them in yheir journey.
Mr Levi Coffin ran the underground railway (well he was the main one)
The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and routes in the United States that helped slaves escape to freedom. Abolitionist sympathizers provided food, transportation, and help in escaping.
London's Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world, dating from 1863
Created in 1931 Harry Beck invented the iconic London Underground (tube) map in 1931 - not the underground railway.
It was started in 1863 by the Metropolitan Railway.
the quakers
which city has underground railway system streatching 265kmand 170 station
The origin of the London underground is the Metropolitan Underground Railway. The idea of the railway came from several diffrent people, but one, and probably the foremost, promoter of the idea was Charles Pearson.