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a lantern hung outside at nigh on a house was a sign of a safe house for run away slaves and the north star was used to guide slaves north

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What were some of the other secret words used for the underground railroad?

y.o.y.o


What were secret signals used in the Underground Railroad?

People hung lanterns at their houses at night, and sew a blue square on their quilts that they hung to tell it was a safe house. These were some of the common ones used, but there are many others used.


How many slaves that used the underground railroad became free?

about how many slaves used the underground railroad, which was about 100,000.


Where was the Underground railroad located?

There was never an actual underground railroad. The underground railroad refers to the process used to free slaves during slavery.


What kind of places were used as stations of the underground railroad?

Here are some places at the underground railroad that the slaves met up at to escape: they came to the North, South and or canada.


Why isn't the underground railroad included in Monopoly?

because the underground railroad was for people in the slavery used to escape from


How do you get in the underground railroad?

The underground railroad isn't actually a railroad or underground, its actually just a secret passage where African American slaves used to escape slavery. They were usually smuggled in coffins!


What was the Underground Railroad-?

The Underground Railroad was used to help slaves in the U.S. escape to states that were free, or to Canada. The railroad was a system of safe houses and secret routes.


When was the underground railroad first used?

1790s it was established.


Who was famous who used the underground railroad?

Harriet Tubman


When did the underground railroad stop being used?

1865


Is underground a proper noun or common?

the word underground is a common noun but if used like Underground Railroad then it is proper