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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a group of secret routes and safe houses that allowed slaves to escape to free states in the mid 1800s.
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Why was the underground railroad was used for?
I believe you mean what was the underground railroad used for. And the answer to that is, during slavery, it set people free because no slave owners knew about it and that is how slaves would escape from slavery/slave owners.
How has America changed because of the underground railroad?
Also it helped to get Abraham Lincoln to write the Emancipation proclamation. Which helped to outlaw slavery in the United states.
How hard it was for Harriet Tubman to travel on the Underground Railroad?
it was very had they did alot to get where they are now. she was a strong woman what no fear in life. but they rape and shot in her eye
Were there any code words used in the Underground Railroad?
Yes the Underground Railroad was a code word itself,
so the Masters didn't know what it meant when the slaves mentioned it.
They also used names like conductors and passengers like an actual railroad.
About how many slaves escaped using the underground railroad?
During the Civil War time slavery was very rough. The Underground Railroad was very important and very useful, but some slaves did die. They were in harsh shape from traveling, especially children. So overall about 500 to 1000 slaves died.
Who escaped slavery and became an underground railroad conductor?
Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape. She was the bravest hero of the Under-Ground-Railroad.
Why did Thomas Garrett build the underground railroad?
No, he never actually went to retrieve slaves and lead them to the North. However, he did provide money, shoes, and a place for them to stay. He coordinated much of the railroad as well.
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What is an underground road called?
Just as there are railroads there are railroad stations. In the big cities, the majority of slaves would stop to rest, get food, and prepare to continue their journey for freedom farther beyond the Northern areas of the United States.
Such places were considered, "stations." For many slaves decided to run and settle in Canada, which slavery was forbidden, and the slaves knew that they would be free forever.
So, as an example, a slave who ran away from his master in South Carolina, had to go along way to make it to the Canadian border.
Therefore, the stations, would help him on his journey, as he would reach the larger cities.
Did the underground railroad run through North Carolina?
Yes it did. Manumission of individual slaves and abolition of slavery in general were popular sentiments among the Quakers of Piedmont North Carolina. Many of the leaders of the anti-slavery movement were those Friends who had moved to North Carolina from the island of Nantucket in the 1770s, of whom Levi Coffin of New Garden (now the site of Guilford College) in Guilford County was the so-called "President" of the Underground Railroad, and his first cousin Elisha Coffin of Franklinville was the founder of the 1838 Franklinville factory, an early alternative to investing money in slavery. Levi Coffin's autobiographical memoir 'Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad: Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents'(Cincinnati, 1880) contains an entire chapter (Chapter II- The Story of Jack Barnes) recounting Levi's efforts to assist Elisha Coffin in 1821 to smuggle an escaped slave to Ohio. Elisha Coffin at that time owned the site of Franklinville, where he operated a grist mill. Elisha Coffin's house on that property (built circa-1835) is one of the pivotal structures of the Franklinville Historic District.
In his book Levi Coffin notes several actual routes from central North Carolina, into the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia, into Ohio and Indiana. Although Levi Coffin moved to Indiana in 1830 to direct efforts on that end of the "freedom trail," other North Carolina Quakers continued to help slaves escape to the North up until the Civil War.
Who went on the underground railroad?
The Abolitionists were the anti-slavery lobby, partly to do with the Quakers. They were not very numerous, but they were very vocal, and included some distinguished figures.
The Underground Railroad was a system of safe-houses, by which slaves could be smuggled into Canada, where slavery was illegal.
This was a response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which obliged the general public to report anyone who looked like a runaway, on pain of a heavy fine. This greatly angered the Abolitionists, and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in response to it.
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Slave hoses were houses that housed nice people hiding the slaves. it is a chain of houses that make the underground railroad.
Female significant conductor of the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is considered the leader of the Underground railroad. The Underground railroad helped more than 30,000 slaves escape slavery.
What did Harriet Tubman and Mary Galloway do during the civil war?
These women bravely led escaping southern slaves away from their slave owners. They would hide them and move them from one place to another place. This was called the Underground Railroad. They helped them get to freedom and relocate to new homes and jobs. Some of the slaves were sent to families that sponsored them and help them get their new start. They hid these slaves from the law enforcers and slave owners. They did a good job too because they helped hundreds.
How did harriet Tubman survive after getting hit with an iron bar?
Because she was survivor .
Ps: she also got hit with a brick.
What were the causes of the underground railroad?
The Fugitive Slave Act caused the formation of the Underground Railroad.
What are some of the ways that abolitionists helped runaways on the Underground Railroad?
There was a secret way to get to the north and there were several different paths to go on. Most of the beginning slaves would be mett by Harriet Tubman and she would either lead them herself, or tell them where they could run to. The first stop usually was an abolitionist house in disguise. The people who would take care of, hide, and feed the slaves would have a lantern in their window to show them that they were friends. So overall, the white Northeners sheltered, hid, fed, and pointed them to the next stop so they could make it to the north, or Canada, to freedom.
Also, note that without these white abolitionist (mostly the Quakers), there would not have been an Underground Railroad. There were many other "conductors" on this railroad, but Mrs. Tubman is the most popular.
Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, which means that she thought slaves should escape slaveryusing whatever means were available to them. She helped more than seventy African Americans escape slavery using the same rural pathways and chain of hiding places that she herself had used to escape to the North.
