Meanwhile, the abolitionists running the underground railroad were excoriated for their unlawful behavior.

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Quite quickly a network of support for refugees, the underground railroad, was established that reached every part of the United States and Canada.

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By following the example of a brave New Yorker , a woman who risked her life to bring slaves along the Underground Railroad.

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Similar inventiveness distinguishes the "racial harmony" panels: "The Underground Railroad" (white men helping runaway slaves to escape), "Opening Day at Talladega College" (newly freed slaves bartering animals and produce for tuition) and "The Building of Savery Library" (blacks and whites laboring together).

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Jim Corbett was middle-aged before he found his vocation as master of the new underground railroad.

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North Koreans travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad to reach free countries via unwelcoming China.

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After the British empire abolished slavery in 1833, British Canada was the destination for the celebrated Underground Railroad that spirited escaped American slaves to freedom.

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The slaves and the freedmen who rode an underground railroad, seeking the light of justice under the cover of night -- they weathered a hard winter.

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Through sheer force of will, Eisner and his organization have had a profound impact on the lives of L.A.'s disadvantaged, opening what the author Malcolm Gladwell, a champion of Eisner's, has called an "underground railroad" out of the barrio.

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