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Bonjour,
J'ai eu du mal à trouver le lien .... Mais j'ai trouvé !
« Almost everyone has heard about the Underground Railroad. Well, many folks don’t realize that it was not a railroad at all.
* The Underground Railroad was an organized SECRET NETWORK of ABOLITIONISTS and FREE BLACKS , lending their assistance and helping SLAVES find FREEDOM.
* They offered RUNAWY slaves a place to HIDE , and to SLEEP towards their journeys NORTH to the FREE states. Many of the shelters were TUNNELS , SHEDS and PEOPLE ’s HOME .
* The Underground Railroad began roughly around 1820’s and continued right up until the CIVIL WAR .
* Runaway slaves FLED the SOUTHERN states and RISK everything for a BETTER life in NORTHERN territories : OHIO , INDIANA , PENNSYLVANIA and CANADA were the most popular places to live » -
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