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Abolition & The Underground Railroad (jan 1, 1780 – jan 1, 1863)

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Antislavery northerners—many of them free Black people—had begun helping enslaved people escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of safe houses as early as the 1780s called the Underground Railroad.

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Date:

jan 1, 1780
jan 1, 1863
~ 83 years