A covert network of routes, safe houses, and abolitionists, the Underground Railroad helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom before the Civil War. Conductors guided fugitives northward, relying on secrecy and courage. Its primary beneficiaries were the thousands who reached liberty in free states and Canada.
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