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29 de out. de 2009 · 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.
The Underground Railroad was used by freedom seekers from slavery in the United States and was generally an organized network of secret routes and safe houses. [1]
19 de out. de 2023 · Underground Railroad. 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.
O Underground Railroad foi uma rede secreta de rotas e esconderijos estabelecida nos Estados Unidos em meados do século XIX e era utilizada por afro-americanos escravizados para escapar em direção aos estados livres (especialmente no norte) ou para o Canadá. [1]
6 de set. de 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Underground Railroad operated at night. Slaves were moved from "station" to "station" by abolitionists. These "stations" were usually homes and churches — any safe place to rest and eat before continuing on the journey to freedom, as faraway as Canada.
While many date the Underground Railroad as starting in the 1830s, when railroad terminology became common, enslaved people began escaping from the earliest colonial period. Allies assisted in journeys to freedom, but the Underground Railroad is centered around the enslaved people who resisted their status and asserted their humanity.
