I think you are confused. The act was not to help slaves, but allowed catching slaves. It was called the Fugitive Slave Act. It gave men the freedom to go find run away slaves.
The people who help runaway slaves are known as conductors or stationmasters on the Underground Railroad. They provided assistance and guidance to enslaved individuals seeking freedom by helping them navigate routes to safety and providing shelter along the way.
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 was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the 19th century to escape to free states or Canada. It was not an actual railroad but a network of people who assisted in the escape of slaves.
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The slave who was in charge of other slaves on a plantation was typically called a "driver". The driver was responsible for overseeing the work of the other slaves and ensuring that tasks were completed efficiently.
the underground railroad
Runaway slaves didn't have code names.
The people who help runaway slaves are known as conductors or stationmasters on the Underground Railroad. They provided assistance and guidance to enslaved individuals seeking freedom by helping them navigate routes to safety and providing shelter along the way.
A person whose business was catching escaped slaves to return them to their owners was called a "slave catcher."
The Underground Railroad
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 was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the 19th century to escape to free states or Canada. It was not an actual railroad but a network of people who assisted in the escape of slaves.
Contrabands were runaway slaves in the North.
They called them lenth warmers
Many slaves escaped. The name of one who escaped and was recaptured is Moses Roper. There was a society who helped them to escape and they had a system called the "underground railroad" which helped lots of slaves, lead by Harriet Tubman. Another famous escaped slave was Fredrick Douglass, who escaped from the south and fled to the north to become a distinguished abolitionist.
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They were called freedmen.