A bunch of books have been wrote about it, so i cant post a exact link, but its in here somewhere!:http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/underground-railroad.
So this is about black people escaping escaping their owner. And in order to do that, they needed to get help, so this is when the Underground Railroad came in. BUT IT WASN'T UNDERGROUND OR A RAILROAD! So don't ask me why they called it that.Or better yet, DO! It was called Underground because the slave catchers couldn't catch the ones on the Underground Railroad. And it was called a railroad because it had 'passengers','cargo','conductors','tracks',''stations', and 'coal'. 'Passenger' and 'cargo' meant the Negroes. 'Conductors' were people who guided the 'cargo'. 'Tracks' were where they had to follow.'Stations' were people who sheltered the 'cargo'.
Many great people were involved in the Underground Railroad and some like Harriet Tubman were conductors themselves! The people were willing to risk there life for anti slavery, and some even were slaves themselves! A lot of them lived in Canada, but some risked living in the north side of the SA. (Not United Yet!)The slave population was slowly leaving, so the south, angry at the north said that if it didn't get it's slaves back, it was going to cause a war. SO IT DID, the Civil War started! The north won, and the USA was now a slave free country.
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