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  2. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Every stanza ends with a reference to Canada as the land "where colored men are free". Slavery in Upper Canada (now Ontario) was outlawed in 1793; in 1819, John Robinson, the Attorney General of Upper Canada, declared that by residing in Canada, black residents were set free, and that Canadian courts would [195] protect their freedom.

  3. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    The list of Underground Railroad sites includes abolitionist locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century North America before and during the American Civil War. It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end slavery in the ...

  4. The Underground Railroad (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The Underground Railroad, also called Fugitives Arriving at Levi Coffin's Indiana Farm, a Busy Station of the Underground Railroad, is the best known of artist Charles T. Webber's paintings. The painting shows a large family of escaped Southern slaves being received in the Northern winter by a group of white abolitionists led by Quaker Levi Coffin.

  5. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    Islamic law approved of enslavement of non-Muslims, and slaves were trafficked from non-Muslim lands: from the North via the Balkan slave trade and the Crimean slave trade; from the East via the Bukhara slave trade; from the West via Andalusian slave trade; and from the South via the Trans-Saharan slave trade, the Red Sea slave trade and the ...

  6. A hard lesson: Terre Haute middle schoolers 'experience ...

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    Feb. 23—Students at Sarah Scott Middle School didn't just learn about the Underground Railroad this week. They experienced it through an interactive play in which they portrayed slaves escaping ...

  7. Barry Jenkins on portraying slavery in 'The Underground ... - AOL

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  8. Andrew J. Russell - Wikipedia

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    Andrew J. Russell was born March 20, 1829, [2] in Walpole, New Hampshire, as the son of Harriet (née Robinson) and Joseph Russell.He was raised in Nunda, New York.He took an early interest in painting and executed portraits and landscapes for family members and for local public figures.

  9. Pacific Railroad Surveys - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km ...