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How the Underground Railroad helped enslaved people find freedom
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Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman (far left) standing with family and formerly...
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Fugitive slaves and conductors meeting along the route of the Underground Railroad.
The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c by William Still, 1872
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