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Coffin's organization generally helped the escaped slaves move onward to Canada, where they could not be captured and returned to slavery in the American South. A prominent figure associated with the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in Maryland in the late 1840s. She returned two years later to help some of her relatives escape.
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History. The Underground Railroad is a term for the covert network of people and places that assisted fugitive slaves as they escaped from slavery in the South.
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The term Underground Railroad first began to appear in the 1840s, but efforts by free blacks and sympathetic whites to help slaves escape bondage had occurred earlier. Historians have noted that groups of Quakers in the North, most notably around Philadelphia, had a tradition of helping escaped slaves.
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By Robert McNamara. The Underground Railroad was the name given to a loose network of activists which helped escaped slaves from the American South find lives of freedom in northern states or across the international border in Canada.
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People who guided slaves from place to place were called conductors.. Locations where slaves could safely find protection, food or a place to sleep were called safe houses or stations.. Those who hid fugitive slaves in their homes, barns or churches were called station masters..
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It was simply a loose network of people who attempted to move enslaved individuals escaping from slavery to and from safe places in a quick and largely secretive manner. At the heart of the Underground Railroad were the beliefs of the abolitionist movement.
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With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, assisting or helping hide fugitive slaves became a federal offense, making all Underground Railroad activity subject to six months in prison and a $1,000 fine. Escaping from slavery or helping someone to escape from slavery was a very difficult and dangerous task.
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what was the name given to the loose organization of people dedicated to helping escaped slaves get to free territory
The Underground Railroad was the name given to the loose organization of people dedicated to helping escaped slaves get to free territory. 