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  2. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    "Keeping the Flames of Freedom Alive", Underground Railroad Monument in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Detroit, Michigan is in the background. The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in Upper Canada. A network of routes led from the United States to Upper and Lower Canada. [1]

  3. Elijah Anderson (Underground Railroad) - Wikipedia

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    The leadership of the Underground Railroad in Madison was targeted and fined large sums of money, leading many to flee the state, including De Baptiste, Lott, and Harris. [10] Other conductors were shot and drowned by pro-slavery mobs. [6] Because of this violence and the imposed fines, Elijah and Mary decided to move to Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

  4. Harriet Forten Purvis - Wikipedia

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    With her mother and sisters, she formed the first biracial women's abolitionist group, the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. She hosted anti-slavery events at her home and with her husband Robert Purvis ran an Underground Railroad station. Robert and Harriet also founded the Gilbert Lyceum. She fought against segregation and for the ...

  5. South Jersey had multiple stops on the Underground Railroad ...

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    Many people know the story of Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave who was a conductor of the Underground Railroad and made dozens of trips from South to North, leading hundreds of slaves to freedom.

  6. Oberlin–Wellington Rescue - Wikipedia

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    The Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of 1858 in was a key event in the history of abolitionism in the United States. A cause celèbre and widely publicized, thanks in part to the new telegraph, it is one of the series of events leading up to Civil War. John Price, an escaped slave, was arrested in Oberlin, Ohio, under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    According to former professor of Pan-African studies, J. Blaine Hudson, who was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville, by the end of the American Civil War 500,000 or more African Americans self-emancipated themselves from slavery on the Underground Railroad.

  9. Love in the Time of Slavery: How Underground Railroad ... - AOL

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    Warning: This post contains spoilers from The Underground Railroad. As Cora and Caesar run through a field together toward freedom in the first episode of The Underground Railroad, the action ...