Underground Railroad
Did they also construct the underground railroad used by the government in
the 1800's?
—Rita
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 3:02 PM
Friday, July 04, 2008
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1 Comments:
"The Underground Railroad, [was] a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada ... " not an actual railroad with tracks and trains. It was operated secretly, in violation of the law, by private citizens who were abolitionists, not by the government.
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