What are some facts about the Underground Railroad?

-Jersey was the "last station" in the underground railroad in jersey city.
-Helped many slaves escape
-There were 3 major routes: Station A = Camden to Burlington and then Bordentown to Princeton. Station B =  Woodbury to Mouth Laurel, Lastly Station C=  routes from Greenwich to Swedesboro.

Few Facts here.

One hero of the Underground Railroad was Levi Coffin, a Quaker who is said to have helped around 3,000 slaves gain their freedom.


Historians estimate that about 100,000 slaves escaped using the Underground Railroad network.

Under the Fugitive Slave Act any person who was caught helping a slave escape or offering shelter could be send to jail for 6 months or subjected to a $1,000 fine.

The Underground Railroad was an informal network and had many routes. Most routes went to northern states and after 1850, to Canada. Others went south to Mexico or the Caribbean.

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It was a place to help slaves escape i think 

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.

it was built to help escaping slaves

Explanation:

i would look it up on google if you have to write a paper about it or something

Interesting Facts about the Underground Railroad

Slave owners really wanted Harriet Tubman, a famous conductor for the railroad, arrested. ...

One hero of the Underground Railroad was Levi Coffin, a Quaker who is said to have helped around 3,000 slaves gain their freedom.

Explanation:

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees