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Harriet Tubman Bio

 

            For escaping slaves, the journey to freedom was the hardest time .
             The Underground Railroad extended throughout 14 .
             northern states from Maine to Nebraska. However, the heaviest .
             activities were concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New .
             York and the New England states (Compton's, 7). Many fugitives .
             reached Canada by way of Detroit or Niagara Falls New York, .
             others sailed across Lake Erie to Ontario from ports like Erie, .
             Pennsylvania and Sandusky Ohio (World Book, 21). Once slaves .
             reached Canada, they were free from the prosecution mandated .
             by the Fugitive Slave Acts (Compton's,7). The runaway's on the .
             Underground Railroad .
             traveled by night, and used the north star for guidance. When .
             clouds covered the stars, they felt trees with their hands knowing .
             moss grows the thickest on the north side of trees. Slaves new .
             how to survive on their own, scavenging for food, picking berries, .
             cucumbers or whatever else was in their surroundings. When .
             running away those slaves with clothes often wore them in layers, .
             others who didn't sometimes suffered from frostbite. The slaves .
             had a long way to travel on foot, some used covered wagon's, .
             carriages, farm wagons as well as boats and steam trains. Fugitives .
             hid in freight cars and sometimes were given regular tickets .
             through Ohio, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. Most slaves .
             traveled on the railroad by foot, some lucky one's were on .
             horseback. Agents of the railroad used cover operations to .
             secretly transport slaves like tools or vegetables. This took .
             fugitives a few miles at a time, farther north ( Underground .
             Railroad, 38). Runaway's were transferred from place to place .
             until reaching Canada, some even traveled by water (Compton's, .
             7). The people who helped escapee's were called conductors, the .
             slaves were called freight, and they traveled on routes called lines .
             (Comton's, 7). The fugitives sought "stations" of farms where .
             they could be hidden ( Funk and Wagnalls, 154) Stopping places .


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