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This is the story of a man who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom.
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Slaves who ran away from their masters and were re-captured suffered terrible punishments.
Historians have never been able to pin down how the Underground Railroad got its name.
Well-known Negro Spirituals of the mid-1800s are much more complex than they first appear.
The Fugitive Slave Act was an attempt by the government to appease southern slave states.
William Still earned the name "The Father of the Underground Railroad".
In the 1850s many Americans believed that slaves were incapable of surviving on their own.
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