Slavery - Underground Rail Road

The subway road is a network of northerners who help slaves reach north and Canada to become safe from their plantation. This is the way secret and railway terms are used to explain the real nature of the system as a hidden operation. The subway extends from Maine to Nebraska but concentrates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York, and New England. More specific attractions include Detroit, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, Buffalo, New York etc. Speakers of slaves and slaves speak in disguised words, using the words "cargo, routes, stations, and orders".

The appearance of the subway path involves a deep personal commitment and contempt of certain laws for higher national importance. The subway is neither a subway train nor a railroad. It is described as a network of loosely built routes that often begin south by historians and lead north to Canada. However, the evacuation route is not limited to the northern part, extending to the west, Mexico and the Caribbean. The failure rate is said to be about the same as the success rate.

Evacuation networks are not underground or railroads. In the meaning of underground resistance, it has a symbolic "underground". By using railway terminology in the code it is called "railway". The subway road contains personal assistance by meeting place, secret route, transportation, safe house, empathic empathy person. Participants are usually organized in small independent groups; this helps keep secrets because individuals know some connections "stations" on the way, but little know about their immediate area It is not done. A slave that is avoided moves north along a route from one station to another. The "command" of the rail comes from a variety of backgrounds including inborn black, white abolitionists, former slaves (escape or hijacking), and Native American.

In 1871, Steele became the first anti - slavery activist who recorded experience of the fugitive slaves at his book "The Underground Railway" This work is usually a participant to explain the story to escape slavery I will use the words. The book provides detailed information about the job of command like himself, but it also offers many letters and testimonies from the fugitive, thanking him for his efforts to seek help To do. Even today, the subway road is still the main source of information to understand this forward-looking and hidden resistance to slavery.