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    Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used in19th century by Black slaves to escape to free states and Canada. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad" Canada was a popular destination with over 30,000 people arriving there to escape enslavement via the network at its peak.

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    Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used in19th century by Black slaves to escape to free states and Canada. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad" Canada was a popular destination with over 30,000 people arriving there to escape enslavement via the network at its peak.

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    Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used in19th century by Black slaves to escape to free states and Canada. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad" Canada was a popular destination with over 30,000 people arriving there to escape enslavement via the network at its peak.

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    HARRIET TUPMAN

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    The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used in19th century by Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.

    The term is also applied to the abolitionists who aided the fugitives () The Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad".

    Canada was a popular destination with over 30,000 people arriving there to escape enslavement via the network at its peak, though US Census figures only account for 6,000.

    Heres a map of the underground railroas.

    Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 or 1821 March 10, 1913) was an AfricanAmerican abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

    A map showhing key locations in Tupmans life.

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