Underground Railroad
noun
variants
or less commonly Underground Railway
: a system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the U.S. before 1863 by which people escaping enslavement were secretly helped to reach the North or Canada
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And in the 1800s, churches served as vital links in the Underground Railroad that helped enslaved people elude authorities and migrate to free states.
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Jan. 2025
In the Black quilting community, Underground Railroad quilts are extremely significant as, historically, they are tied to codes/means of communication.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Diemer explores the life of one of the few people who actually worked, as opposed to volunteered, for the Underground Railroad.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
Around that same time, Priscilla Baltimore and Bishop William Paul Quinn, an African Methodist Episcopal missionary, established the town’s AME church, which along with a Baptist church and a number of homes, served as stops in the Underground Railroad.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Jan. 2025
In the Black quilting community, Underground Railroad quilts are extremely significant as, historically, they are tied to codes/means of communication.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Diemer explores the life of one of the few people who actually worked, as opposed to volunteered, for the Underground Railroad.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
Around that same time, Priscilla Baltimore and Bishop William Paul Quinn, an African Methodist Episcopal missionary, established the town’s AME church, which along with a Baptist church and a number of homes, served as stops in the Underground Railroad.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Underground Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Underground%20Railroad. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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