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    The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used...
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  • The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama limited television series created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the...
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    Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) is a nonprofit United States-based anti-sex trafficking organization founded in 2013 by Tim Ballard. The organization...
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  • The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel...
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  • Look up underground railroad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Underground Railroad was a network of escape routes for slaves in the 19th century...
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    Timothy Ballard is the founder and former CEO of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), an anti-sex trafficking organization. Ballard was removed as...
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    Songs of the Underground Railroad were spiritual and work songs used during the early-to-mid 19th century in the United States to encourage and convey...
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    The list of Underground Railroad sites includes abolitionist locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century North America...
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  • Underground Railroad and working with 'genius' Barry Jenkins". GQ. Retrieved 23 May 2021. Bradshaw, Paul (10 June 2021). "'The Underground Railroad'...
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    The Underground Railroad Records is an 1872 book by William Still, who is known as the Father of the Underground Railroad. It is subtitled A record of...
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  • Quilts of the Underground Railroad describes a controversial belief that quilts were used to communicate information to African slaves about how to escape...
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    The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004...
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    1780 to 1865. Those who used the term Reverse Underground Railroad were angered at an "Underground Railroad" helping slaves escape. Rescues of blacks who...
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  • Look up underground railway in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Underground railway may refer to: The Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes...
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  • The Chinese Underground Railroad was an imaginary route through the borderland between the United States and Mexico, especially around El Paso, Texas....
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    home at 31-35 Maple Street in Florence served as a stop for the Underground Railroad. After the NAEI dissolved, Hill took over the factory and ran it...
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    The Underground Railroad in Indiana was part of a larger, unofficial, and loosely-connected network of groups and individuals who aided and facilitated...
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    2021, he created and directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad based on the novel of the same name and received a Primetime Emmy...
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    author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction...
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    list. In 2021, she starred in the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad as Cora, which made her the first South African actress to lead an...
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    William Still (category Underground Railroad people)
    abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a conductor of the Underground Railroad and was responsible for aiding and assisting at least 649 slaves...
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    period, and made it a popular stop on the Underground Railroad. In 2004, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was completed along Freedom...
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    Catherine White Coffin (category Underground Railroad people)
    abolitionist and the wife of Levi Coffin, the unofficial "President of the Underground Railroad". The Coffin home in Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, has since...
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    that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad consisted of meeting points, secret routes, transportation...
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    home countries. Founded in 2006, Rainbow Railroad's name and concept draw inspiration from the Underground Railroad, used during the 19th century by enslaved...
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    Freedom International Memorial to the Underground Railroad opened — commemorating Detroit's role in the Underground Railroad. It was sculpted by Edward Dwight...
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  • Underground Railroad: The Secret History is an American-Canadian documentary television series, which premiered in 2022 on Discovery Channel Canada, Science...
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    people of color who were enslaved". Valentine Hicks was also an Underground Railroad station master; in his home—a key way station—a removable panel behind...
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    Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is a 480-acre (190 ha) National Park Service unit in the U.S. state of Maryland. It commemorates...
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    congregation of Quakers in Michigan in 1831. They also created a network of Underground Railroad stations in the Raisin River Valley. Daniel Smith was the first leader...
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