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Underground Railroad

I know you're wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is that

everybody has heard of the Underground Railroad, but not everyone knows

just what it was. Firstly, it wasn't underground, and it wasn't even a

railroad. The term "Underground Railroad" actually comes from a runaway

slave, who while being chased swam across a creek and was out of the

owner's sight. The owner said "...must have gone off on an underground

railroad." That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who decided to

live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the Underground

Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the start of the

civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first major anti-slavery

movements.





The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom

you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow

because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on

plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple......


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