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It surprises me how there are white people who are holding the black people as their own slaves
and there are those who are helping the black people escape slavery in the south. The white men
who were helping the slaves in the Underground Railroad were taking risks because there were
severe punishments from the slave owners and the government. One white man gives the slave
food and place to sleep while another white man offers to transport the slave to the destination as
he poses as the master of the slave.

I met magnanimous people. The black man who helped me cross the river on his boat and the
white man named John. These are the people who were kind to me and showed me love in a
situation I was not able to repay them not with anything. There are also the selfish people on the
journey who would report the escaped slaves for them to receive rewards from the slave owners.

http://www.harriet-tubman.org/letter-by-thomas-garrett/

The Underground Railroad is very secretive in which Harriet Tubman is on regular operations to
transport slaves to make sure they have necessary travel items such as clothes, food or money
and ensure a safe passage for the slaves and only those with knowledge about the Underground
Railroad can communicate. Secrets on what was happening in the railroad were not spilled to
anyone even the slave owners who would offer rewards of the whereabouts of their slaves.

‘’… the master of these two men had put… an advertisement for them… but they made a safe
exit.’’

‘’She brought away her aged parents in a singular manner.’’

Funding and supporting the operations of the underground rail. He provided the slaves traveling
with items and necessities such as shoes and offered them a place to hide and rest or sleep before
they went through to the next stage of the underground rail allowing a safe passage of the slaves.
He also sourced for funding of the operations of the railroad from the Anti-Slavery Society of
Edinburgh in which the society funded the Underground Railroad and it was him who received
the fund for Harriet Tubman.

“Harriet, I am glad to see thee! I suppose thee wants a pair of new shoes.”

“She at one time brought as many as seven or eight, several of whom were women and
children’’