Underground Railroad
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I know you’re wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is that everybody has heard of the , but not everyone knows just what it was. Firstly, it wasn’t underground, and it wasn’t even a railroad. The term "" actually comes from a runaway slave, who while being chas ....
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.... and earning profits as a bonus for not having to pay hired work.
Slaves turned to freedom for more than one reason. Some were obsessed with being free and living a life where they were not told how to live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves even back as far back as when the first colonies began, slaves wanted to escape. They ....
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