JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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Question
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What were the people called who helped the slaves on their path to freedom?
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conductors
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volunteers
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land owners
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -People known as “conductors” guided the fugitive enslaved people. Hiding places included private homes, churches and schoolhouses. These were called “stations, ” “safe houses, ” and “depots.” The people operating them were called “stationmasters.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Our Headlines and Heroes blog takes a look at Harriet Tubman as the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. Tubman and those she helped escape from slavery headed north to freedom, sometimes across the border to Canada.
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