I know you're wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is
that everybody has heard of the Underground Railroad, but not everyone
knows just what it was. Firstly, it wasn't underground, and it wasn't
even a railroad. The term "Underground Railroad" actually comes from a
runaway slave, who while being chased swam across a creek and was out
of the owner's sight. The owner said "...must have gone off on an
underground railroad." That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who
decided to live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the
Underground Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the
start of the civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first
major anti-slavery movements.
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