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    A Secret Journey

    Feb 01, 2022 3 minutes
    by Ross Rosenfeld and
    Elizabeth Howard

    The Underground Railroad was neither underground, nor a railroad. One story says that the name came from a slaveholder who chased a freedom seeker from Kentucky to the Ohio River, only to find that the person seemed to have disappeared. “He must have gone on an underground railroad!” the man said.

    The Underground Railroad was a journey taken by enslaved people hoping to escape to freedom. It was a loose organization of different people from different backgrounds. Men and women. Black people and white

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