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The Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses and 'conductors' who helped slaves escape from slavery to the North or to abolitionists in the South. These links tell you more about this famous 'railroad.' ... The Underground Railroad: Cloaked Gateway to Freedom; The Underground Railroad is a catch-all term that refers...
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www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/undergroundrailro...
www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/undergroundrailroad.htm
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They recently undertook their longest venture in historical analysis: Two and a half years devoted to trying to deny the claims that Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn was part of the Underground Railroad of the Civil War era.
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undergroundrailroadsafehouses.org/
undergroundrailroadsafehouses.org/
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undergroundrailroadsafehouses.org/photos/parking/parkin...
undergroundrailroadsafehouses.org/photos/parking/parking.html
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Easier - The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad. It was a network of houses and other buildings used to help slaves escape to freedom in the Northern states or Canada. The Underground Railroad operated for many years before and ... Fugitives usually traveled secretly at night, and were hidden in 'safe houses',
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www.42explore2.com/undergrd.htm
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Stations were safe houses along the underground railroad. Runaways got shelter and food there. They were usually taken there by conductors. People who owned stations or safe houses put their and their families lives in danger to help runaway slave...
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library.thinkquest.org/CR0212661/id39.htm
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The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, built in 1835, was the home of one of Michigan's most active Underground Railroad participants, a founding member of the state's Republican Party and Kalamazoo County's first physician.
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www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/underground/mi1.htm
www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/underground/mi1.htm
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With spies and bounty hunters everywhere, even safe houses were not always safe. It became necessary to be able to convey, in a low-key fashion, what condition any Underground Railroad stop was in at any given time.
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www.phillyburbs.com/undergroundrailroad/signals.shtml
www.phillyburbs.com/undergroundrailroad/signals.shtml
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As a fugitive, you knew enough to make a zigzag move back and forward, and Seibert, and authority on the Underground Railroad, tells us that the safe houses were located so that you would not travel the long and straight line.
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www.wqln.org/safeharbor/Film/InterviewTranscripts/Dobar...
www.wqln.org/safeharbor/Film/InterviewTranscripts/Dobard/Quilts.htm
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Today, 200 years later in Iraq, a modern version of the underground railroad is saving the lives of LGBT people who are fleeing Islamist death squads. ... It is providing safe houses in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, and is smuggling LGBT people to neighbouring countries, where it helps them apply for United...
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gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/iraq-s-unde...
gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/iraq-s-underground-queer-railroad/
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