Jim Corbett was middle-aged before he found his vocation as master of the new underground railroad.
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.
By following the example of a brave New Yorker , a woman who risked her life to bring slaves along the Underground Railroad.
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.
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.
And it has meant relying on a sort of 21st-century underground railroad of supporters, people who took an interest in my future and took risks for me.
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As I traveled the country, asking everyone if they knew of any African American IBCLCs, this story took less journalistic routes and more grapevine and Underground Railroad-like pathways.
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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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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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