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The Undeground Railroad actually has its beginnings in Africa when the Portugese captured their first slaves in the 1400s. It' s been estimated that around twelve million Africans were uprooted from their homeland and sold into a life of slavery between 1450 and 1850. From a multitude of conflict, wars, escapes, and resistance efforts, the Railroad supposedly ended around the mid 19th century, after the American Civil War.

In the United States, because of the secrecy of the Underground Railroad there are no written records or documents of any of the routes taken, who started this resistance and freedom effort, nor who took the escaped slaves into hiding on their route to Canada. Some people believe it started around 1837; others say it began much earlier. The Railroad ended when slavery was abolished after the Union defeated the Confederacy in the American Civil War in 1865.

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Idell Dietrich

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