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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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.
about how many slaves used the underground railroad, which was about 100,000.
There was never an actual underground railroad. The underground railroad refers to the process used to free slaves during slavery.
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.
because the underground railroad was for people in the slavery used to escape from
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!
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.
1790s it was established.
Harriet Tubman
1865
the word underground is a common noun but if used like Underground Railroad then it is proper