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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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Who helped slaves escape through the undergroumd railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom on the underground railroad?
Harriett Tubman
Who was the woman that helped slaves escape through the underground railroad?
Her name was Harriet Tubman
What is the name of the system that helped slaves escape and gain their freedom?
In the US it was called the Underground Railroad
Which former slave helped other slave escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
The system that helped runaway slaves escape to Canada was?
Harriet Tubman
Who helped slaves escape in the under ground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What was the name of the system that helped runaway slaves?
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.
Who was the conductor who helped slaves escape through under ground railroad?
Harriet Tubbman
Where was the under ground railroad?
the underground rail road was not a place but a network of people who helped slaves escape to the north and Canada
What railroad helped slaves escape?
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.
Did some enslaves escape on the underground railroad?
That is correct. The underground railroad helped slaves escape north to free territory.
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 was the underground railroad good for?
The effects were to help the slaves reach freedom.
Why was harriet Tubman so important?
She helped create the underground railroad. Because she helped many African American slaves escape to Canada, including her family she was a great addition to the war against slavery. They (the whites) were on the hunt for Harriet, but that did not stop her she still lead a army of runaway slaves to the home of the free Canada.
Who helped slaves escape through the undergroumd railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What was the secret network that helped slaves escape to the north?
The Underground Railroad
