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no. the underground railroad was a secret (underground) chain of people who would help slaves reach freedom. the "railroad" part of the underground railroad was simply a way to refer to the chain of people that runaway slaves would stay with.
The Underground Railroad.
The Underground Railroad was not legal according to the laws of the time. Slavery was protected by the Constitution and fugitive slave laws required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners. The Underground Railroad operated in secret to help enslaved individuals escape to freedom in the North or Canada.
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.
The Underground Railroad setup passage ways so that slaves can escape captivityThat would be the Underground Railroad. Underground not as in subterranean but as in secret or hidden. And railroad not as with trains and tracks, but as in going from place to place via way stations and stopovers.Underground Railroad
no. the underground railroad was a secret (underground) chain of people who would help slaves reach freedom. the "railroad" part of the underground railroad was simply a way to refer to the chain of people that runaway slaves would stay with.
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The "underground railroad" is a term used, in a broad sense, to refer to secret routes and safehouses to assist escaped slaves. There was no single "underground railroad". While there were notable people involved in this, there was no "founder" of it because the term is too broad.
no it wasn't i was just a secret code. No, the Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad. It was called "underground" because slave owners could never find out how or when slaves escaped. The slave owners claimed it must be underground since they could never see the slaves run off; however, the Underground Railroad was just extremely sneaky and never was underground.
She was not the only one who assisted in creating the Underground Railroad, however Harriet Tubman is most renowned for her advent of a secret route between various "safe houses" that courriered escaped slaves from the Southern United States to the North.
The Underground Railroad was a secret route that led slaves to freedom.
underground , it is part of the underground railroad
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!
The Underground Railroad was not legal according to the laws of the time. Slavery was protected by the Constitution and fugitive slave laws required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners. The Underground Railroad operated in secret to help enslaved individuals escape to freedom in the North or Canada.
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.
The Underground Railroad.