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Underground Railroad
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 chased swam across a creek and was out of the
owner's sight. The owner said "...must have gone off on an underground
railroad." That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who decided to
live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the Underground
Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery ....
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