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"I used to be the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my coach off the track and I never lost a passenger." - Harriet Tubman The Underground Railroad is one of the issues that young schoolchildren 're normally taught. Every North american knows the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North with the help of determined abolitionists and even previous escaped slaves like Harriet Tubman. The secrecy involved in the Underground Railroad made it one of the very most mysterious aspects of the middle-19th century in America, to the magnitude that claims disperse that 100,000 slaves acquired escaped via the Underground Railroad. Certainly, from a functional standpoint, the Underground Railroad acquired to stay covert not limited to the sake of thousands of slaves, but also for a small military of women and men of every competition, religion and financial class who put themselves in peril on an ongoing basis throughout the first one half of the 19th hundred years, and in the years before the war. Over 150 years later, that same secrecy has helped the Underground Railroad become so romanticized and mythologized that folks often imagine it with techniques that were considerably different from fact. Prior to the American Civil Battle taken out slavery, it was a fixture in North America for over 200 years. By 1850 a tuned slave was worth approximately $2,500, around 10 times the amount of the annual salary in that day. Because of this, the economic reliance on slavery in the South was an extreme one, and in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act, dark people in the North were under regular pressure to guard their "credentials" to bounty hunters and owners.
