Underground Railroad
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underground-railroad-210-1615840
title:
Underground Railroad
text:
The Underground Railroad was used by freedom seekers form Slavery in the United States and was generally an organized network of secret routes and safe houses. Enslaved Americans escaped from slavery as early as the 17th century and many of their escapes were unaided, but the network of safe houses operated by agents generally known as the Underground Railroad began to organize in the 1780s among Abolitionist Societies in the North. It ran north and grew steadily until the Emancipation Proclamat
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Network for fugitive slaves in 19th-century U.S.
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
date created:
2001-11-25T00:13:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T19:00:52Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16