Underground Railroad Research Paper

The Underground Railroad was a network of routes that nobody knew of, that was created in the 1830’s. Even though there were smaller, less known, organizations before it, they were never as big as the Underground Railroad was. And the Underground Railroad was used to escape enslaved African Americans into the free states. The person who created the Underground Railroad was a man named Isaac Hopper. And some of the people who were helping the Underground Railroad were abolitionists and people who thought that slavery was bad or they were just sympathetic to them because of the harsh treatment that was given to them. When the Underground Railroad was growing, the name kind of stuck and they used codes because the enslaved people didn’t know how to read or write, so it made it easier for them to know where they …show more content…
He was an abolitionist because his parents were enslaved. He was one of the conductors, to which he had saved up to 800 enslaved people but his name seems to be forgotten. But the most well-known Underground Railroad “conductor” would have to be Harriet Tubman. There are many others like Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Joshua Glover and Reverend Leonard Grimes. I know that the Underground Railroad was a good creation in the 1800’s during slavery. The main reason why it was a good thing would be because it helped thousands of enslaved people escape slavery and be free. Over time, the routes were able to grow larger and larger which allowed more and more people to escape and allow them to either help the other people or go to their home, if they had a home. And they were able to reunite with their family that they didn’t have with them when they were enslaved. . But even if they did escape, they were not completely safe. If the slave was found in a free state, they would have to forcibly be brought back to their master under the Second Slave Fugitive

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