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What were the homes and barns where slaves stayed along the underground rail road railroad called?
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∙ 10y ago
Many were called "safehouses", because the homes and other buildings (such as barns, etc.) were owned by those who participated in the anti slavery efforts, and did all they could to help the slaves safely escape to freedom. Therefore, the homes and other buildings where the slaves were given shelter were considered safe, which is how they came to be called "safehouses".
While many of the run away slaves stayed in the northern states, most of the slaves who ran away ran to Canada because, once they crossed into Canada, they were relatively safe from slave hunters who were paid to find and bring back runaways.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 10y agoThey were called "stations," building on the railroad metaphor.
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Why did Harriet Tubman help slaves?
Harriet Tubman helped them escape because when she escaped she had hope for her and other people that they can escape. So she helped over 300 slaves escape and never was caught or never lost one slave. She made 19 journeys in the 1850's too.
How many slaves deserted their masters during the war?
no one knows how many but alot did.....some were scared they'd get caught and stayed
How did African-Americans contribute to the civil war effort?
Many fought for the union. There were African American units. A good movie on this is GLORY. Many who weren't soldiers followed the troops and helped in the camps. When union troops came through an area they freed slaves they found on plantations. Many of those freed slaves stayed with the troops and had a nickname called " contraband ". This stems from an event when a confederate officer asked a union officer for the slaves that he had freed. In war contraband doesn't have to be returned so the union officer called the freed slaves contraband to keep from returning them. The name stuck through the war.
Why does the emancipation declare immediate freedom to slaves?
It technically freed the slaves in the states in rebellion, but not the ones in the Border states that had stayed loyal. In practice, it did not free many slaves, but the Union troops were licensed to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns. These presently joined the Union armies.
Why did Lincoln only include certain slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation?
Because he was keen not to upset the people of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware - slave states that had stayed loyal.
What was it called where slaves stayed to be safe?
The Underground Rail Road
Where do you go to get to the underground rail road?
The underground railroad was not a real railroad, but places where slaves stayed and got help on the route north. They would move from location to location and given directions from one place to another. Some sites that were part of the railroad still exist today.
What was the route of the underground railroad?
There were several different routes taken by slaves along the Underground Railroad. Some went to the Caribbean, to Mexico, to the northern United States, and even to Canada. Routes out of the deep south ran upward into places like Philadelphia and other free states.
Why did Harriet Tubman help slaves?
Harriet Tubman helped them escape because when she escaped she had hope for her and other people that they can escape. So she helped over 300 slaves escape and never was caught or never lost one slave. She made 19 journeys in the 1850's too.
How many slaves stayed on where they were after being freed?
After being freed, many former slaves chose to stay on the plantations where they had been enslaved due to lack of resources and opportunities elsewhere. Some stayed voluntarily to work for wages. Others were forced to stay due to sharecropping agreements or debt peonage.
What is the word for slaves states that stayed in the union when the civil war began?
Border States
What does Lincoln encourage these free slaves to do and refrain from doing?
ddf. Actually the real answer is that Lincoln encouraged those free slaves go into freedom forever while the other un freed slaves stayed slave.
What were Americans who stayed loyal to Britain called?
They were called Loyalists
How many slaves deserted their masters during the war?
no one knows how many but alot did.....some were scared they'd get caught and stayed
What did former slave do after the civil war?
The former slaves either stayed with their masters. But they didn't say they were slaves, they are now employers of their old master. The employers got paid a higher amount.
What did freed slaves do after they were free?
After gaining their freedom, many freed slaves sought to reunite with their families, search for employment opportunities, acquire education, and strive for political and social equality. Some also migrated to northern states or territories in pursuit of better opportunities and escape from discriminatory practices in the South.
Is there an underground city in Australia?
I stayed at an underground hotel at White cliffs NSW near Broken hill in an opal mining town. The whole place is dug into the hill and set up like the underground homes of the miners known as dugouts.
