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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

The Underground Railroad was known as a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North from the South. It was not operated by any single organization or person. In fact, it was assisted by abolitionist sympathizers. The Underground Railroad took place in thousands of miles, from Kentucky and Virginia across Ohio and Indiana. In the North, it extended from Maryland, across Pennsylvania, into New York, through New England. At that time, it successfully moved hundreds of slaves northward each year - according to one estimate, the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850.
At that time, The North was a more industrialized region where jobs were filled by newly imported immigrants, by new technology which made them less dependent on slave labor. In contrast, the South had rich fertile land mostly used for farming and plantation. Huge number of plantations demanded a vast number of slavery. Slavery was seen as the vital of the......

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