UnderGround RailRoad

Conductor: leader of Underground Railroad, took charge
Underground: sounds secretive, not everyone knows

You wanted to reach a 'northern state' where slavery
was illegal like Pennsylvania, New York or
Maine

• The Fugitive Slave Act was a series of federal laws (entire country) that required the return of enslaved people who escaped to free states. The laws were passed in 1793 and 1850.

• The Northern States did not like these laws.

• Those that helped in the Underground Railroad took great risks in the North.

• Do you think people in the Northern states continued to help slaves to freedom with the Underground Railroad? 

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Fugitive Slave Law

Fugitive

running away or intending flight

a fugitive slave

a fugitive debtor

​Effects of Underground Railroad

• Helped thousands escape to freedom

• Encouraged Abolitionist movements, to end slavery

• Contributed to start of the Civil War

• Baggage: slaves that were escaping

• Station: homes or shelters that hid those escaping slavery