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  2. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Following upon legislation passed in 1990 for the National Park Service to perform a special resource study of the Underground Railroad, [215] in 1997, the 105th Congress introduced and subsequently passed H.R. 1635 – National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998, which President Bill Clinton signed into law that year. [216]

  3. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    "Keeping the Flames of Freedom Alive", Underground Railroad Monument in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Detroit, Michigan is in the background. The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in Upper Canada. A network of routes led from the United States to Upper and Lower Canada. [1]

  4. Underground Railroad in Indiana - Wikipedia

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    The underground network also incorporated railroad-related terms to refer to various aspects of this clandestine work such as routes, stations or depots (safe havens), conductors (guides), agents or stationmasters (property owners of the safehouses or their assistants), and passengers and cargoes (fugitives).

  5. Chicago to Detroit Freedom Trail honoring enslaved freedom ...

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    Running from Chicago across northern Indiana and east to Detroit, the route would stop in South Bend and mirror well-known trails traversed by freedom seekers as part of the Underground Railroad.

  6. Map: Illinois Underground Railroad historical sites, plus ...

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    If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge ...

  7. Burkle Estate - Wikipedia

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    The Burkle Estate is a historic home at 826 North Second Street in Memphis, Tennessee.It is also known as the Slavehaven.Although disputed by some historians, the Burkle Estate is claimed to have been part of the Underground Railroad- a secret network of way stations to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states.