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Title: Some Notes on the Extent of New York City's Involvement in the Underground Railroad.
Author : Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
Release Date : January 01, 2005
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 198 KB

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INTRODUCTION: WHAT WAS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD? The Underground Railroad was part of a larger effort to undo an unconscionable, immoral act perpetrated against humanity, in the form of chattel slavery. It was a crucial driving force in the abolitionist movement, drawing the country more and more into the abyss of civil war and the eventual collapse of of the institution of slavery. As part of that larger effort the Underground Railroad can be seen as having been: