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Underground Railroad - Wikipedia
23 Apr 2024 at 12:12am
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada.

Underground Railroad - Definition, Background & Leaders | HISTORY
23 Apr 2024 at 4:02am
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. It developed as a convergence of several...

The Underground Railroad - National Geographic Society
22 Apr 2024 at 5:32pm
The Underground Railroad. ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRY. The Underground Railroad. During the era of slavery, the Underground Railroad was a network of routes, places, and people that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to the North. Grades. 5 - 8. Subjects. Social Studies, U.S. History. Image. Home of Levi Coffin.

Underground Railroad | Slave Escape, Abolitionists & Fugitive ...
22 Apr 2024 at 11:15pm
Underground Railroad, in the United States, a system existing in the Northern states before the Civil War by which escaped slaves from the South were secretly helped by sympathetic Northerners, in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Acts, to reach places of safety in the North or in Canada.

What is the Underground Railroad? - U.S. National Park Service
22 Apr 2024 at 5:29am
The Underground Railroad ?the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War?refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Wherever slavery existed, there were efforts to escape.

National Park Service Announces 19 Additions to the ...
23 Apr 2024 at 3:22pm
Created by Congress in 1998, the Network to Freedom recognizes places and programs with verifiable connections to the Underground Railroad and the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight. It includes almost 800 sites and programs in 40 states, Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.

Underground Railroad | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of ...
21 Apr 2024 at 3:10pm
Underground Railroad | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. The Underground Railroad. Diane Miller. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.974. Published online: 19 October 2022. Summary. Africans and their descendants enslaved in the western hemisphere resisted their status in several ways.

Underground Railroad - HistoryNet
23 Apr 2024 at 10:35am
The Underground Railroad was the term used to describe a network of meeting places, secret routes, passageways and safehouses used by slaves in the U.S. to escape slave-holding states to northern states and Canada.

Underground Railroad (U.S. National Park Service)
10 Oct 2022 at 4:44am
Open Menu. Explore This Park. Underground Railroad. Contact Us. Journey to Freedom. Beginning in the 17th century and continuing through the mid-19th century in the United States, enslaved African Americans resisted bondage to gain their freedom through acts of self-emancipation.



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