"I am lucky to help those tired travelers coming from slavery." - William Still. William Steel was a humble Philadelphia clerk who endangered him to lead a slave that endangered his life in a crazy year before the American Civil War. Still it is the head of the complex network of opponents, supporters, and safe houses, ranging from Philadelphia to the present southern Ontario. Williams helped about 800 former slaves to flee 14 years after working on the subway.
Who will provide food, instructions and confidentiality to the fugitive on the way to freedom; occasionally brave soul, he repeatedly entered the South, guided the slaves to the north, slaves of fugitives, free blacks and white people of conscience Secret Network 2 Regardless of whether it is supported or not, the definition of escape history began in 1830. 1 State registration, history and education, National Park Service, USA Subway Resources: Theme Research (Washington DC: Interior Ministry, 2000)), 2 C. Peter Ripley, Subway Road, Subway Railway (US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1998 ), 45-75. 3 Bertram ยท Herbert, "National Park Service, National Historical Building Underground Railroad Archeology Initiative", January 6, 1997. 4 Ripley, Subway Rd, 45 - 75
Harriet Tabman, probably the most famous conductor of the Mass Transit Railroad, helped hundreds of uncontrollable slaves escape from freedom. She has not lost one of them on the way. As an escaping slave, she was on the subway with the help of another famous conductor, William Still. He continues to write a book called "Underground Railway: Factual Records, True Story, Letters ..." which contains an explanation of the fugitives slaves who escape freedom through underground railroads. John Parker is a venture slave who escaped to slavery to help free others. He directed one of the busiest sections of the subway trail and carried the escaping slave to the Ohio River. Pastor John Rankin, his neighbors and fellow commander, worked with him on the subway. Both families are functioning as subway stations
Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 as a slave in the state of Maryland. She escaped in 1849 and returned to the south at least 19 times to lead the fugitives freely with the northern provinces. In 1850, the "Fugitive Slavery Law" stipulated that it is dangerous for a fugitive to stay north. Harriet traveled 11 times to Canada, leading over 300 metro streets "passengers" to Canada. They moved at night and evacuated to the barn, chimney and haystack. She can neither withdraw nor withdraw. She painted a pistol on a frustrated fugitive, and said "to move or die." He and other members of the organization arrived safely in Canada.