Underground Railroad Synonyms

Secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
Synonyms:
  1. underground-railway
  2. subway
  3. underground route
  4. secret cooperative network

Underground Railroad Sentence Examples

  • He started forward, anxious to see if the underground railroad survived the onslaught.

  • Link The underground railroad Curious about how slaves escaped?

  • She's not going to know about the underground railroad.

  • He and his wife began a family and assisted the underground railroad.

  • The severity of this measure led to gross abuses and defeated its purpose; the number of abolitionists increased, the operations of the Underground Railroad became more efficient, and new Personal Liberty Laws were enacted in Vermont (1850), Connecticut (1854), Rhode Island (1854), Massachusetts (1855), Michigan (1855), Maine (1855 and 1857), Kansas (1858) and Wisconsin (1858).

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