LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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Freedom Road
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Underground Railroad
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Reform Movement
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Liberator
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Underground Railroad was the network used by enslaved black Americans to obtain their freedom in the 30 years before the Civil War (1860-1865). The “railroad” used many routes from states in the South, which supported slavery, to “free” states in the North and Canada.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term also refers to the federal Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Such people are also called freedom seekers to avoid implying that the enslaved person had committed a crime and that the slaveholder was the injured party.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -There were many well-used routes stretching west through Ohio to Indiana and Iowa. Others headed north through Pennsylvania and into New England or through Detroit on their way to Canada.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Underground Railroad refers to a network of secret routes and hiding places for runaway slaves to escape to freedom in the 19th century. Abolitionists and other people sympathetic to the plight of slaves would help guide people in the middle of the night to free states and Canada.