Very often escaped slaves were not safe living in the North because of the US Fugitive Slave Act. Also because some Northern US States were not friendly to escaped slaves. However, the leader of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, helped the escaped slaves gain refuge in British controlled Canada.
the conductors are unknown but the first person to TRAVEL the underground railroad was Harriet Tubman
The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but a series of "safe houses" that escaped slaves would travel along the way to the North or Canada. Houses that were part of the underground railroad were often marked by a quilt or lanterns, that only railroad guides, or "conductors", would know.
horrible
Slaves who were in the process of escaping slavery utilized the underground railroad, which was actually a route of safe houses and clandestine means of travel to get to a state where slavery had been outlawed.
On Saturday nights during summer or winter.
south
the underground railroad.
they traveled on the underground railroad
the conductors are unknown but the first person to TRAVEL the underground railroad was Harriet Tubman
they try to make a decision for how to escape and how could escape to be safe to travel to the underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but a series of "safe houses" that escaped slaves would travel along the way to the North or Canada. Houses that were part of the underground railroad were often marked by a quilt or lanterns, that only railroad guides, or "conductors", would know.
horrible
Slaves who were in the process of escaping slavery utilized the underground railroad, which was actually a route of safe houses and clandestine means of travel to get to a state where slavery had been outlawed.
On Saturday nights during summer or winter.
Foot. It was a series of stops. Not a real train.
the underground railroad
a conductor is a person who helps the slaves travel (Underground railroad)with out getting caught by the slave catchers who will bring them or other native-amaicin people who have never been slaves their whole life