underground railroad in English

noun
1
a secret network for helping slaves escape from the South to the North and to Canada in the years before the Civil War.

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1. The Underground Railroad:

2. The people that started Underground Railroad were amateurs.

3. The Underground Railroad is neither a railroad, nor underground.

4. Even though shelters were emerging, it was like the underground railroad.

5. The Prophetess is a mercantile vessel, not an underground railroad for escaping slaves.

6. In 2004 a center in honor of the "underground railroad" opens in Cincinnati.

7. She also collected tales from those runaway slaves who escaped via the Underground Railroad.

8. Harriet Tubman became famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s.Sentence dictionary

9. AC : Whew ! I feel like I just made it through the Underground Railroad. Fried chicken anyone?

10. Backlash against the law helped fuel the abolitionist movement and increased participation on the Underground Railroad.

11. He had attended church, had a family, helped in the underground railroad, fought in the Civil War.

12. 13 Backlash against the law helped fuel the abolitionist movement and increased participation on the Underground Railroad.

13. Plaqued in 2002 Focus of abolitionist activity and associated with famous Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, 1851-55

14. The two met in Canada where she told him all she knew of the Underground Railroad in the East.

15. Negro slaves took great chances to escape to freedom. Many gained their freedom through the so-called "underground railroad."

16. Two weeks later, starving and exhausted, the family reached Cincinnati, where they made contact with members of the Underground Railroad.

17. Eventually three principal routes converged at the Coffin house, which came to be the Grand Central Terminal of the Underground Railroad.

18. During the antebellum period, some were inspired by religious ideals to support such progressive social causes as abolitionism and the Underground Railroad.

19. She returned to the South at least nineteen times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

20. Because Bibb published numerous interviews with newly arrived escapees, the newspaper became an invaluable resource for historians seeking to understand the workings of the Underground Railroad.

21. The former slave known for leading more than 300 people—including her elderly parents—to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad was also a Union spy.

22. It introduces married couple Henrietta “Hetty” and Benjamin “Benjy” Rhodes, former Conductors for the Vigilance Society, a group ferrying dozens of Black slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

23. He used his lecture fees to aid fugitive slaves, headed the Rochester station of the Underground Railroad, and framed a plan for the establishment of an industrial college for African Americans.

24. Before leaving we also wandered to Orange Street, which played a part in the National Underground Railroad, the network via which southern slaves escaped to freedom before and during the Civil War.

25. A mission to find a self-realized android may initiate a fascinating look at a futuristic Underground Railroad, but a little side gossiping might let you lie your way to quest completion.

26. The outcome of these conclusions may not fully mature, but I hope it can play a role for the Underground Railroad in the actual project to improve seismic performance of the proposal.

27. The others made it to the Ohio shore, where Parker hurriedly arranged for a wagon to take them to the next "station" on the Underground Railroad -- the first leg of their journey to safety in Canada.

28. From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York—the “Agitators” of the title—acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the Underground Railroad, …

29. (This depot was replaced by the historic President Street Station, constructed 1849–1850; it was noted as a site of other slave escapes along one of many routes of the famous "Underground Railroad" and during the Civil War.)