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- The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established to help slaves escape.
- The first mention of the Underground Railroad was in 1883 when a slave named Tice Davids escaped from Kentucky to Ohio
- Harriet Tubman was a fugitive slave who risked her life any times to help escape others out of slavery using a series of safe points leading to freedom in the North
- The Underground Railroad helped slaves working on plantations in the south escape to the free states in the North
- The North Star was a star that helped lead the slaves to freedom. With some assistance from a friendly white woman, Harriet Tubman followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania and soon after to Philadelphia, where she found work and saved her money.
- People known as “conductors” guided the fugitive enslaved people. Hiding places included private homes, churches and schoolhouses. These were called “stations,” “safe houses,” and “depots.” The people operating them were called “stationmasters.”
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