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  2. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish refused to return them back to the United States. More freedom seekers traveled through Texas the following year. [103] Enslaved people were emancipated by crossing the border from the United States into Mexico, which was a Spanish colony into the nineteenth century. [104] In the United States, enslaved people were considered property.

  3. Slavery in Canada - Wikipedia

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    An Act to Prevent the further Introduction of Slaves and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province, Parliament of Upper Canada, 1793. By 1790, the abolition movement was gaining credence in Canada and the ill intent of slavery was evidenced by an incident involving a slave woman being violently abused by her slave owner ...

  4. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    With the growing abolitionist movement in Europe and the Americas, the transatlantic slave trade gradually declined until being fully abolished in the second-half of the 19th century. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to modern research, roughly 12.5 million enslaved people were transported through the Middle Passage to the Americas. [ 8 ]

  5. Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

  6. Act Against Slavery - Wikipedia

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    The first two pages of the Act Against Slavery, taken from the statute volume. The Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the second legislative session of Upper Canada, the colonial division of British North America that would eventually become Ontario. [1]

  7. Levi Coffin - Wikipedia

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    Levi Coffin Jr. (October 28, 1798 – September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Republican, abolitionist, farmer, businessman and humanitarian. An active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad", estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed through his care.

  8. In addition, other transcontinentals were built in the South (Southern Pacific, Santa Fe) and in the North along the CanadaUS border (Northern Pacific, Great Northern), accelerating the settlement of the West by offering inexpensive farms and ranches on credit, carrying pioneers and supplies westward, and cattle, wheat and minerals eastward ...

  9. Transportation in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canada's airline industry saw significant change following the signing of the US-Canada open skies agreement in 1995, when the marketplace became less regulated and more competitive. [ 18 ] According to a 2016 report, Canada's air transportation was the most expensive for consumers globally; [ 19 ] however, this was prior to the emergence of ...