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Underground Railroad
Network for fugitive slaves in 19th-century U.S.
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Underground Railroad (1) · Merchant's House Museum (1) · Secret passage (1) · Abolitionist (1) · East Village (1) · Historical discovery (1) · Slavery (1)
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The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses for fugitive slaves to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada during the era of slavery in the United States. Slaves escaped from slavery as early as the 16th century; many of their escapes were unaided. However, a network of safe houses generally known as the Underground Railroad began to organize in the 1780s among Abolitionist Societies in the North.
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🇺🇸 In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground RailroadA passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum had long been a mystery. Then researchers learned that the home’s original builder ...
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