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**__ The Underground Railroad __**

Harriet Tubman, who was born as Araminta Ross, was the woman that helped many runaway slaves to freedom. The slaves would run away from their homs and would have to try to get to the north where they could find somewhere to be free and not work as a slave. The Underground Railroad was a vast network of people and places that would hide runaway slaves so they could get to the north and freedom. Harriet Tubman made 19 trips across the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 runaway slaves get to freedom. There were other people inbolved on the Underground Railroad, including abolitonist, Frederick Douglass, and author of //__Uncle Tom's Cabin__//, Herriet Beecher Stowe.

To see some of the places the runaway slaves would stay at on the Underground Railroad, Click [|HERE]

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