USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Underground Railroad was a secret network of abolitionists (people who wanted to abolish slavery). They helped African Americans escape from enslavement in the American South to free Northern states or to Canada. The Underground Railroad was the largest anti-slavery freedom movement in North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Underground Railroad-the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War-refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.

Detailed explanation-3: -After 1850, most escaping enslaved people traveled all the way to Canada. They had to go to Canada to make sure they would be safe. The reason was that the United States Congress passed a law in 1850 called The Fugitive Slave Act.

Detailed explanation-4: -When Great Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1834, thus making all its possessions free territory, thousands of African Americans escaped to the refuge of Canada.

Detailed explanation-5: -This map shows the major routes enslaved people traveled along using the Underground Railroad. Most fled to free Northern states or the country of Canada, but some fugitives escaped south to Mexico (through Texas) or to islands in the Bahamas (through Florida). Please be respectful of copyright.