People hung lanterns at their houses at night, and sew a blue square on their quilts that they hung to tell it was a safe house. These were some of the common ones used, but there are many others used.
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.
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Underground Railroad
it was a network of secret routes and safes houses used by 19 century
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.
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 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!
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the pony express The Underground Railroad.
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to free states or Canada.
Underground Railroad
a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
it was a network of secret routes and safes houses used by 19 century
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.
about how many slaves used the underground railroad, which was about 100,000.
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.
There was never an actual underground railroad. The underground railroad refers to the process used to free slaves during slavery.