I know you're wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is that
everybody has heard of the Underground Railroad, but not everyone knows
just what it was. Firstly, it wasn't underground, and it wasn't even a
railroad. The term "Underground Railroad" 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, the start of the
civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first major anti-slavery
movements.

The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom
you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow
because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on
plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple......

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