Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad. Many other abolitionists (people against slavery) helped, as well.
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Her name was Harriet Tubman
In the US it was called the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
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.
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the underground rail road was not a place but a network of people who helped slaves escape to the north and Canada
The "Underground" Railroad, which wasn't an actual railroad, but rather a number of "safe houses" that runaway slaves could stay at because the owners knew that slavery was evil and wrong, and were willing to put themselves at risk of death to shelter the runaway slaves, and knew others who felt the same and directed or helped the runaways to get to those others. In that way the runaways could pass through the slave states into free states or into Canada where they were safer.
That is correct. The underground railroad helped slaves escape north to free territory.
The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
People who helped slaves escape were often referred to as conductors or stationmasters on the Underground Railroad.
The effects were to help the slaves reach freedom.
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.