the Quakers would provide transportation for the slave to ride in until they got to cannada
Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman is considered the leader of the Underground railroad. The Underground railroad helped more than 30,000 slaves escape slavery.
The Underground Railroad was the name given to the system by which escaped slaves from the South were helped in their flight to the North. It is believed that the system started in 1787. The Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860.
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The Underground railroad is not an actual railroad. It was a secret network of cooperation between slaves and those who helped them escape to freedom in attempts to give them that freedom. So, the U.R.R. may be in your heart or mind, but not in a physical place.
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The Underground Railroad was an important historical happening. It was developed between people who wanted to help free slaves. People traveled from the south to the north and back, using known routes to help free men.
False! 50,000 slaves are thought to have been conducted through the railroad network between 1830 and 1860.
100,000 slaves escaped through the undreground railroad to freedom 50,000 slaves were reported to have escaped between 1830 and 1860.
She walked the UnderGround RailRoad when she secretly made 19 trips to take slaves to freedom. She had walk miles just to get people to freedom.She had to be careful. She always kept a gun in case one of the slaves wanted to go back she said`if you go back you die` `so walk on or die`
The "underground railroad" was neither a railroad, nor underground. It was a system of anti-slavery sympathizers, many Southerners, who helped escaped slaves make their way to freedom in the North prior to the US Civil War. A "conductor" was someone who accompanied and guided the slaves as they moved between "stations" (houses and farms) as they made their way, over days or weeks, to the non-slave states.
The Eurotunnel or le tunnel sous la Manche
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