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for people on plantations and tension was rising           plantation, and then guide the runaways
    throughout the south during the civil war and that         northward.? The runaways would usually
    resulted in causing the underground railroads              travel 10 - 20 miles at night and then rest at a
    golden age. The song, Follow the Drinking Gourd,           station during the day. Then the station
 The Not So                                                    master would have to alert the next station
    was popular among slaves and it is referring to
    the underground railroad when it is saying to
                                                               master that the slave would be on their way
 Underground                                                   to their ?station.?
    follow the drinking gourd.
            The Pathways to Freedom
                                                                           The Last Passengers
 Railroad     Many of the slaves in areas of the

    railroad thought that the railroad was a myth                     The underground railroad came to an end
                                                               during the end of the civil war when slavery was
 The Golden Routes For                                                     abolished. It served no use to the slaves anymore
    or they thought that it was no where around
 Runaw ay Slaves  them. The underground railroad stretched as   because there was no need to escape from their

 By M ason Shearer  far south as Florida and as far north as             owner because they didn?t own them
    Canada.  Many of the escape
                                                Term inology Box                           anymore. The
    routes                                                                                 underground railroad
 You wake up below the canvas of the   The History of the
    involved going to                                                                      was the best way to
 trees remembering that you no longer have a   Golden Routes
    different ?stations"                                                                   escape for the slaves. In
 comfortable bed to sleep in, the protection of
    The underground railroad was the best   which usually were                             the article ?Pathways to
 your friends, or the free rations of food
 way to freedom for runaways. It was built and   peoples houses                            Freedom: Maryland and
 supplied by your owner. There is no going   formed in the late 1700?s but was never really   that were in on the   the Underground
 back now. If they find you, you will be   functional until the early 1830?s. It hit its peak in   underground   Railroad,? ?the
 tortured  and may even be killed. You better   use during the 1850?s and 60?s. They had people   underground railroad provided them with hiding
    railroad. Much of it was above ground but
 get  going because that would be a horrible   called conductors or station masters that ran   places, food, and transportation to get to the
    some of the escape routes were underground
 way to die, being so close to freedom. Slaves   different stations on the underground railroad. In                                                                 next station...? This was the most effective way to
    tunnels that connected to the ?stations.? The
 that attempt to escape had to be some of the   the article, ?People                                                             escape bondage for slaves yet it was still risky. It
 Who Helped                                                             station masters or ?conductors? provided   helped about 100,000 people on their way to
 bravest people ever to live because of how
 Hundreds,? People                                                              people with        freedom but
 harsh the consequences were of an
 even guided others                                                                    food, fresh   many other
 attempted escape. The underground railroad
 on the  underground                                                           clothing, and       runaways
 was a series of escape routes including some
 railroad like Harriet                                                           other things      weren't as
 underground tunnels for runaway slaves. in
 Tubman. She would                                                          before                 successful.
 the article, ?The Underground Railroad:   guide them to their                                                              sending them   Slavery was

 Escape From Slavery,? about 100,000 slaves   first  "station" and                                                             horrible and it
 This is a painting of  Harriet
 Tubman leading a slave   on their way
 successfully escaped through the   basically hand them                                                               brought out the
 family to freedom
    to another          Here are many of the parts of the       This is another painting of Harriet
 underground railroad. It was the best way to   off to them and then go back and try and find   underground railroad routes in the   Tubman leading a slave family to   best in some
    station. Many                     U.S                        the next station on their quest for
 freedom for slaves but it was still very   other slaves willing to escape. According to the   of the ?conductors? figured out crafty ways to   freedom  people but the
 dangerous. It tested the slaves physically and   national park service, Through the end of the civil   worst in many. The underground railroad is one
 war the African American slaves would use the   get slaves to their ?station.?  In the article, The
 mentally throughout their whole escape but                    of the most significant systems in American
 underground railroad as a way to escape the   Underground Railroad,  Sometimes
 there was no better way to gain freedom for                   history.
 bondage of their owner. Times were getting harsh   "conductors" would pose as a slave, enter a
 a slave.
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