What Do You Mean By Underground Rail Road?

Underground Railroad was the secret system that used in northern United Sates to help escaping slaves. In that time in some area of the United States was under slave age. The name of the railroad was derived from the need of confidentiality and the term 'railway' was used in the conduct of a system.

The system of 'underground railroad' was developed in disobedience of the fugitive slave acts. The slave act was active mostly from 1830 to 1860. The network was used to escape by almost 40,000 to 100,000 slaves. The philanthropists, the church leaders and the abolitionists provided soulful assistance to the slaves for their escapement. A large number of free blacks also supported their escapement; Harriet Tubman was one of them.

The route of the 'underground railroad' was across between 14 states. It was consisted with called lines and safe stopping spaces (it was called the stations). The leaders were called 'conductors' in that system.

The Underground Railroad was existed for giving support to the antislavery cause. It also convinced the southern that the north would never tolerate slavery to continue unconcealed.

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The Underground Rail road was the way that slaves got to freedom. I believe that Sojourner Truth was the first to start it.

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Underground rail road had the slavery story for their working of rail road, but now for the developing freedom and the democracy of human being, it don't have slaves, so underground rail road is like subway, we take it every day for going to our work, and the convenient of going every where easily and faster. Then it is a kind of facility transportation of human being .

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Underground railroad was a series of routes one slave may take to freedom. It was to Pennsylvania, or other midstates, then up through the north. Once at north, they would cross lake Erie to Canada and live a life of freedom.
The fugitive slave act enrage northerners because,
1.) It corrupt the judicial system:
Judges who returned slaves to the south recieved $5 dollars, if they returned them to the owner they would recive $10 dollars.
2.) It required northerners to help catch slaves:
If northerners were caught helping slaves they would be jailed or fined $1,000.
Harriet Tubman was a head conductor, she led hundreds of slaves (or maybe just 100) to freedom. She led them to a man's house, Garrison. Garrison was a publisher of the Lonestar abolitionist(1) newspaper.
Fredrick Douglass helped by righting another abolitionist newspaper, the name I do not know. He, along with Sojourner Truth, spoke out to the public from personnal experiances of slavery. Yes, they were slaves, Fredrick Douglass escaped his plantation, went off to England to earn money and study, upon his return he bought his freedom.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a daughter of a plantation owner, wanted to help free slaves, but didn't physically. Instead she wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This showed many people about slavery.
This is all I have... I believe...Yep, that's all.

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