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29. Okt. 2009 · The earliest mention of the Underground Railroad came in 1831 when enslaved man Tice Davids escaped from Kentucky into Ohio and his owner blamed an “underground railroad” for helping Davids to...
19. Okt. 2023 · noun. system used by abolitionists between 1800-1865 to help enslaved African Americans escape to free states. 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.
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.
Die Underground Railroad (englisch für Untergrundbahn) war ein aus Gegnern der Sklaverei – Weißen und Schwarzen – bestehendes informelles Schleusernetzwerk, das für versklavte Afroamerikaner die Flucht aus den Südstaaten der USA in die sichereren Nordstaaten oder in die Provinz Kanada organisierte. Über geheime Routen ...
19. Apr. 2024 · 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.
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27. Feb. 2024 · NPR's Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground Railroad back to the writings of the little-known 19th century abolitionist Thomas Smallwood....
17. Feb. 2015 · Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad tells a story that will surprise most readers. Among its biggest surprises is that, despite the book’s subtitle, the ...
