The underground railroad wasn't really a "railroad". It had a deeper meaning. The "underground railroad" was the hope that slaves may one day escape and the actions of those who helped slaves escape into freedom. People from the southern states that sympathized with the slaves helped them escape moving north. Slaves were not safe even in states that outlawed slavery because of the Fugitive Slave Act. They had to continue to Canada.
It helped slaves get to the north for a different life which might be what caused people to start the civil war because so many slaves were comingAlso it helped to get Abraham Lincoln to write the Emancipation proclamation. Which helped to outlaw slavery in the United states.
The underground railroad was mainly ran by Harriet Tubman. She was a slave that traveled from union states back over to the slave states over and over again helping other slaves get over to freedom. the underground railroad was a series of trails that helped slaves get to the northern states to freedom.
Answer The term was used to describe the underground network of safe houses used to transport slaves out of the Southern slave-states to the free-states of the North during the Civil War period.
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The "Underground" Railroad, which wasn't an actual railroad, but rather a number of "safe houses" that runaway slaves could stay at because the owners knew that slavery was evil and wrong, and were willing to put themselves at risk of death to shelter the runaway slaves, and knew others who felt the same and directed or helped the runaways to get to those others. In that way the runaways could pass through the slave states into free states or into Canada where they were safer.
Harriet Tubman
Those who helped slaves escape to freedom were called abolitionists or conductors on the Underground Railroad. They provided shelter, food, and safe passage to those seeking to escape slavery in the United States.
network of people?? i don't know what you mean by network of people but Harriet Tubman helped the slaves be free!! is this an ok awnser?
The "Underground" Railroad, which wasn't an actual railroad, but rather a number of "safe houses" that runaway slaves could stay at because the owners knew that slavery was evil and wrong, and were willing to put themselves at risk of death to shelter the runaway slaves, and knew others who felt the same and directed or helped the runaways to get to those others. In that way the runaways could pass through the slave states into free states or into Canada where they were safer.
kentuck
They are slaves that ran away from their masters back in the olden days.
The Underground Railroad was the name of the system that helped runaway slaves escape to freedom in the northern states and Canada. It was a network of routes and safe houses operated by abolitionists and sympathetic individuals.
The Underground Railroad, a secret network of abolitionists, free black individuals, and sympathetic white individuals, helped slaves escape to freedom in the United States. While not a religious group in itself, many members of the Underground Railroad were inspired by their Christian beliefs to assist in freeing slaves and upholding the principle of human equality.
It helped satisfy the demands of slaveholders by creating a new law that states people caught helping runaway slaves would be punished. People who found runaway slaves-even runaways who had reached the north-had to return them to the south.
It helped satisfy the demands of slaveholders by creating a new law that states people caught helping runaway slaves would be punished. People who found runaway slaves-even runaways who had reached the north-had to return them to the south.
The best word to describe the underground railroad is "escape". It was indeed the means of escape for black slaves to the free states or to Canada and it helped around 100,000 to freedom.