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Underground Railroad
Title: Underground Railroad
Category: History
Details: Words: 1596 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad
The escape to freedom
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 …showed first 75 words of 1596 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1596 total…the fight for abolishment grew stronger. It was no longer
necessary for the railroad to be, since almost all the slaves who were going to run already had. The end of slavery came about when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free" (NARA).
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