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Underground railroad
A means of escape for thousands of enslaved people from the southern United States to the north and Canada operating from the late 1700s to 1862; it was called the Underground Railroad in 1831, and free blacks and white abolitionists (conductors) offered the enslaved travelling at night food, clothing and safe locations (stations.)
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