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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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What is the negative effect to the underground railroad?
Some negative effects that the Railroad caused were that if someone got caught they would certainly get killed or tortured. Secondly the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. This placed both escaping slaves and freedmen in jeopardy. Some legally-freed people of color were captured and ended up back in slavery. Last but not least it was hard to get a job once they got to freedom.
What is the phone number of the Slave Haven Underground Railroad in Memphis Tennessee?
The address of the Slave Haven Underground Railroad is: 826 N 2Nd St, Memphis, TN 38107
Who built the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman built the underground railroad for the slaves to take a path so the slaves could escape and their owners won't catch them or beat them. Its just like the song follow the drinking gourd and the slaves had to follow the north star and see the drinking gourds its really good if you travel at night because its easier and darker and the masters won't catch them.
Was Frederick Douglass a part of the underground railroad?
I'm not sure but he was a abolitionist after escaping to the North. People actually listened to him because he had been a slave.
does that help?
He also was a verrry important man
What was punishment for being caught esaping in the Underground Railroad?
If slaves were caught on the underground railroad they would be torchured, and sent back to there plantation. They sometimes were killed.
What is the underground railroad like?
The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and people who would serve as "conductors" to escort slaves from the South to the free North.
What was the impact of the underground railroad on Harriet tubmans life?
the fugitive slave act change Harriet Tubman life because the tried to stop her from freeing slave.
Why did they call it the underground railroad if it wasnt a railroad?
The Underground Railroad was called a 'railroad' because there were multiple stops along the way for slaves to get food, clothes, and other supplies. It was called the 'underground' railroad because it was a mostly secret operation to get slaves from the South to the North and to Canada. Many would not stop in the North because they could still be captured and returned to their "owners."
The Underground Railroad was a secret network to the North for escaping slaves in the South prior to the US Civil War. It was a step-by-step passage created by escaped slaves and abolitionists, including sympathizers in the South. So it wasn't actually a railroad, or even under the ground, for the most part.
It is called "underground" in the same sense as the French Underground of World War II, a secret group within an oppressive society. The term "railroad" is used because, much like trains travelling from station to station, the slaves were moved north over a few days or weeks, usually at night. Anti-slavery sympathizers allowed the use of their houses and farms to feed, clothe, and hide the escapees.
Canada was then part of the British Empire. Great Britain officially banned slavery in the Empire in 1833. A slave reaching Canada was a free person. On the other hand, a slave found in any part of the United States or its territories had to be returned because of very strict fugitive slave laws.
What was a conductor with the underground railroad?
Since the underground railroad wasn't a real railroad, but a method for slaves to escape north there wasn't a conductor. Some times people like Harriet Tubman would lead people, but many times they were just told what the next stop was until they got north.
What was the purpose of the underground rail road?
The underground railroad began during the period when slavery in the south still existed. There were slaves that had escaped from the south to the north of the Mason-Dixon Line which was a safe place for them. These slaves and some sympathizers in the north were responsible for helping slaves escape from their masters in the south. The underground railroad was a network of homes or other structures where slaves could be held safely until they could move on to the next destination. The slaves were fed and cared for while staying in these "safe houses." A slave would travel through the network of safe houses until he or she reached the north where slavery was illegal and they could stay safely in the open.
Who used the Underground Railroad?
There were several like William Still who was sometimes called "The Father of the Underground Railroad", Harriet Tubman(sometimes the slaves called her Moses), Levi Coffin helped over 100 slaves every year for 33 years and William Lloyd Garrison(one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society).
How many years did the underground railroad last?
im just really asking you how long was it i just thought abot 540 miles?
i was realy 234 miles
What are facts about harriet Tubman and the underground railroad?
many northerners learned about slavery by personal contact with slaves.
What was the underground railroad who were the passengers and the conductors?
The 'passengers' of the Underground Railroad were enslaved African Americans and 'conductors' were abolitionists(people against slavery). But remember, the Underground Railroad wasn't underground and wasn't an actual railroad
Why did the slaves use the underground railroad?
To escape to Canada. They couldn't simply travel through the north because of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Part of the Compromise of 1850, the act said that Northerners were obliged to turn in runaway slaves to their southern owners. Fugitive means runaway. The abolitionists ran the underground railroad to help the slaves secretly (hence the term underground) escape to freedom.
What is the symbolic meaning of the underground railroad?
former slaveHarriet Tubman who had escaped as well as other slaves that ran away spirited away slaves to places north and eventually Canada. Although it had some quaker friends and a few whites that had morals to help them,it was primarily a black movement of former slaves and freedmen and women of color that led the majority of missions and provided havens for our people during their escape.
On the underground railroad what were stations and conductors?
The underground railroad (not a railroad and mostly not underground) was the network that helped slaves escape to the North prior to the Civil War.
The term "stations" referred to the individual safe locations (houses, barns, farms) that would feed, clothe, and hide the slaves as they moved step-by-step toward the free states and Canada.
The "conductors" were the guides who accompanied groups of slaves, to lead them from one station to the next. In the secret organization, few guides knew more than one or two of the locations, so they could not compromise the entire organization if caught, arrested, or bribed.
What is the Underground Railroad and how did it work?
Negro slaves that escaped from their imprisonment followed a route north to Canada, where many people along the way took them in and gave them a place to eat, sleep and hide while their "masters" were looking for them. Many people that did take them in weren't Negro themselves, but Caucasians that were against slavery and wanted these slaves to be free. As a result, they were willing to risk everything to open up their homes in secret to offer their kindness and hospitality to the escapees in their desperate times and dreams of their freedom when they crossed the border into Canada.
Why Did Abolitionists get upset about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty if they would allow slavery within each territory.
What were the two ultimate destinations of the underground railroad?
The final destination for the Underground Railroad was Canada.
Who were the passengers on the underground railroad?
Many slaves! The underground railroad was a system of smuggling slaves! There were ofter signs or signals in a persons window so a slave could know the house was a safe place to hide in. The slaves mostly traveled at night and hid in the day. Once a slave got to the north they were considered free but, if their owner found them they could take them back. Also if another white man thought he was his even though he wasn't he could still take the slave because the white men were always right.
Harriet Tubman ran the under groundrailroad
