USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: –Harriet Tubman, 1896. 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. Wherever slavery existed, there were efforts to escape.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many Means of Escape Most often they traveled by land on foot, horse, or wagon under the protection of darkness. Drivers concealed self-liberators in false compartments built into their wagons, or hid them under loads of produce. Sometimes, fleeing slaves traveled by train.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Underground” implies secrecy; “railroad” refers to the way people followed certain routes-with stops along the way-to get to their destination. The phrase wasn’t something that one person decided to name the system but a term that people started using as more and more fugitives escaped through this network.

Detailed explanation-4: -fugitive slave, any individual who escaped from slavery in the period before and including the American Civil War. In general they fled to Canada or to free states in the North, though Florida (for a time under Spanish control) was also a place of refuge. (See Black Seminoles.)

Detailed explanation-5: -The underground railroad, where it existed, offered local service to runaway slaves, assisting them from one point to another. Farther along, others would take the passenger into their transportation system until the final destination had been reached.