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Tubman, after escaping slavery, lead, on 15 trips to the ... The routes from safe-house to safe-house (houses where fugitive slaves were kept) were called lines and were roughly 15 miles long, but the distance shortened considerably the further north one got. Stopping places were called stations (Catherine Harris' home).
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www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/UndergroundRailRoad....
www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/UndergroundRailRoad.html
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Slavery in America Image Gallery ... A "station" was a safe house in which escaping people could hide. And its exact route and operation was a carefully kept secret, thus the reference to it as something underground. The route generally ran through Ohio and Indiana in the middle South and through New Jersey and New York in...
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www.slaveryinamerica.org/scripts/sia/gallery.cgi
www.slaveryinamerica.org/scripts/sia/gallery.cgi
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The second form of safe house is a shelter, which again may have a secret or protected location where mostly women and their children may hide ... During the reign of slavery in the Southern US states, many people and churches in the North opened their doors to slaves escaping to Canada. These were also called safe houses,
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www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-safe-house.htm
www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-safe-house.htm
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A safe house is a house that slaves are safe in. An abolitionists usually owned the house and slaves knew it was a safe house by a light in the window! <There were other ways but that was the main one.>
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_slave_safe_house
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Dr. Nathan Thomas House; Photograph taken by Donald H. Sanborn, courtesy of the Michigan Historical Center. ... In 1837, he was one of 400 residents in Prairie Ronde and Brady (now Schoolcraft) townships who petitioned Congress in opposition to the annexation of Texas because of the territory's support of slavery.
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www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/mi1.htm
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Tours of Cooling Springs Farm and its Underground Railroad safe-house are arranged by appointment or through the organizations listed under the programs section of this website. To arrange a ... The family¹s passed-down oral tradition is that freedom seekers escaping slavery found shelter at the farm's spring house.
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Safe-house escape ... I do not get a chance to talk to any of his employees. But I have already seen plenty of victims at a safe-house in Manila. ... MODERN SLAVERY...
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6507495.stm
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Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad (School & Library Binding) ... Eleven year old Eliza Jackson is escaping slavery in Virginia with her mother and older brother, Ben. Along the way, Eliza's mother is captured, and Eliza and Ben are separated. Eliza's journey brings her to the Reid home.
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www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0613163737
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www.goodridgefreedomhouse.com/
www.goodridgefreedomhouse.com/
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