... "underground" or a "railroad," but a loosely constructed network of escape routes that originated in the South, wove through the North, and eventually ended in Canada. Escape routes also extended into western territories, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Typically, enslaved African Americans who fled from plantations and cities northern to Virginia were more likely to take refuge in northern states, Canada, and ... western territories. Those who lived in the Deep South often ensured their freedom by escaping into Mexico and the Caribbean. Among other locations to which they fled were maroon s...

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