From the other teams E.O.T.O. I learned new information about The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was an organization of whites and blacks that assisted runaway slaves from the South to the North. This played a vital role in the anti-slave movement as it assisted runaway slaves from the late 18th century to the Civil War.
I learned that The Quakers were considered to be the first group to actively assist slaves. According to this persons research, George Washington said a quaker tried to "liberate" one of his slaves. By the mid-1840's The Underground Railroad was a common term.
As for how The Underground Railroad worked, I learned that "conductors would guide the hidden slaves to hiding places like churches, schoolhouses, and homes. These places were called "stations" or "depots." The people operating these places were called "stationmasters."
Notable names within The Underground Railroad include Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and Isaac Hopper.
Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War. She did this all with a bounty on her head. Tubman was a Nurse, a Union spy, a women's suffrage supporter, and one of the most inspirational and influential people in American history.
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Isaac Hopper, a convert to Quakerism, established what one author called "the first operating cell of the abolitionist underground." Hopper hid runaway slaves in his home and organized a network of safe havens and cultivated a web of informants so as to learn the plans of fugitive slave hunters. He also excelled at exploiting legal loopholes to win slave's freedom in court.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-brown#:~:text=Brown%20failed%20at%20several%20business,runaway%20slaves%20escape%20to%20Canada.
https://www.history.com/news/8-key-contributors-to-the-underground-railroad
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