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Description: "Routes of the Underground Railroad, 1830-1865." Whole map of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada.
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Credit: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/CWPics/86139.jpg. Compiled from "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom" by Willbur H. Siebert Wilbur H. Siebert, The Macmillan Company, 1898.[1]
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The following 12 pages link to this image:
- Alum Creek State Park
- Harriet Forten Purvis
- Hart Leavitt
- History of slavery in Illinois
- History of slavery in Maryland
- Isaac J. Rice
- List of Underground Railroad sites
- Midwestern United States
- Reverse Underground Railroad
- Underground Railroad
- Underground Railroad in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Woodford County, Illinois
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