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at least nineteen times to help nations, the Union North and the

her family and other slaves reach Confederate South. The South

freedom up North. Her intelligence however, would reach their breaking

and courage helped led her to save point when Abraham Lincoln was

and free hundred of thousand of elected president of the United

slaves. She had also never lost a States. Although Lincoln had view

fugitive or allowed anyone to turn about abolishing, his first act would

back. be to preserve the United States

as one nation and not two separate

Chapter 6: Civil War and the forces. The war was against the

Emancipation Proclamation North and South but in reality it

Due to these distinct differences was a war against slavery itself.

of views, the North and South The war started going bad for the

had nearly become two separate South when the blacks joined the