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The underground railroad was neither a railroad with engine or rails, nor was is underground as in a tunnel or cave, but it was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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What is a good sentence using underground railroad?

The Underground railroad helped many slaves to freedom.


What is a sentence using the term Underground Railroad in a sentence about slavery?

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to free states or Canada.


Did people who were not involve in the underground railroad know about the underground railroad?

Yes they did and that is why it was so amazingly secrative. Yes because some of the whites helped the slaves get to freedom by using the Underground Railroad.


How many slaves escape using the underground railroad?

There is no way to tell exactly how many slaves escaped using the underground railroad. This was a successful route to freedom for a great many.


Who or what freed over 70 slaves through the underground railroad?

A slave is credited with freeing over 700 slaves using the underground railroad


Are you supposed to capitalize underground railroad in a sentence?

Yes I have reason to believe that its capitilized


How do you make a sentence using railroad?

I've been working on the railroad.


Can you give an example of a sentence using the word underground railroad?

Before the Civil War in America, many black people left the south on foot, and were routed through the underground railroad through the northern states to their freedom. The underground railroad consisted of non-black people sympathetic to the plight of black citizens, so they fed them, housed them and helped them find their way to freedom.


Was the Underground Railroad underground?

No it is known as the underground railroad as it was hidden from sight


How did Harriet Tubman escape from salvery?

she escaped using the underground railroad


What is the name of the railroad that Harriet Tubman worked on?

The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad.


When did the Underground Railroad end?

the underground railroad started in 1816 and ended in 1856.