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INTRODUCTION
The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad. It was a network of people working secretly to help slaves escape to freedom in the Northern States and Canada. This network of escape routes, or "Freedom Trail," operated for many years before and during the Civil War.
Escape routes stretched from the
southern slave states into the North and on to Canada. Fugitives usually
traveled secretly at night, and were hidden in safe houses, barns, and haylofts
in the day. Thousands of antislavery campaigners, both black and white, risked
their lives to operate the railway.
