Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a way for Southern US Slaves to escape to the North or Canada. Slave hunters and their friends were known for their brutality.

Some people in the Northern US (New England for example) had parts of their houses built to aid in hiding escaped slaves from the slave hunters as they were passed on on their way to Canada also New Bedford was famous as an antislavery towns (see Whaling) where slaves could catch a breathe and then sign on a ship to escape the Slave Hunters Ps Frederik Douglas lived there and many people were with the anti-slavery crowd in New Bedford

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The world's first underground railway was in London, it was opened on the 10th of January 1863, and ran from Paddington to Farringdon.

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.

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So it won't interfere with street traffic. Parts of Seattle's metro are built at street level, and every time the train comes to one of those intersections, it closes the cross street until the train passes.

Here are some places at the underground railroad that the slaves met up at to escape: they came to the North, South and or canada.

it would very on how far it was from where the slaves were held to Canada.

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The Fugitive Slave Act caused the formation of the Underground Railroad.

Yes. White Women did work on the underground railroad. Although, mostly men worked on the underground railroad, while the women helped aid wounded.

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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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because he believes, that to many people know of it. and it isn't underground. if it was, it might be a little safer.

That option might have been taken had the South remained in the Union and excepted some kind of peaceful political solution to the slavery question. As it was, since the country had had to spend millions and millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives to sustain the Union and Lincoln had simply declared most slaves to be free, there was no political sentiment whatsoever for further compensation. Michael Montagne

Because they believed that slavery was immoral, and by providing shelter and aiding fleeing slaves, they were doing the right thing.

The underground railroad was neither a railroad nor was it underground. It used terminology from the railroad. A house where runaway slaves were welcome was called a "station." Sometimes word spread among slaves where to find a station. In the novel, Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the runaway slave, Jim, knew of one such place in Cairo, Illinois. A slave might need to travel from one slave cabin to another slave cabin for a few days until he could find a station. At a station, he or she would find a conductor. The conductor would provide safe passage to the next station. That passage might be in a wagon underneath a load of hay. Or, they might be hidden in some other way. At the next station, they would be fed and there they would sleep and perhaps spend a day or two until another conductor took them to the next station. That continued until they reached their destination.

They looked just like any other building, like a house, a church, a barn, possibly a commercial building of some sort. This was an illegal, secret activity, so the idea was to hide what was going on as much as possible. Some houses had secret rooms, behind false walls, with concealed or camouflaged doors. Other places the runaways would just be hidden in an attic, a cellar, a barn loft, anywhere they could be concealed until they could be moved on. It was the people that lived or worked in these places that were important, with their willingness to help the runaways. Some had more elaborate hiding places within their home (or church) than others. There are a few buildings still standing which, according to local traditions, were used as "stations" along the "railroad". It was really just a network of friendly places, with the people there at those places being willing to conceal the runaways for one night or several nights, until conditions were favorable to try to cover some more ground toward the north.

The dates were around 1866

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