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underground railroad and the nature of gray agency, Conception illustrates how survivors of relationship slavery can stop levying misplaced blame on them without giving up the valuable practice of blaming. Conception concludes that by choos...
Underground Railroad. However, in practice moved hundreds of slaves northward each year - by one estimate, South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. (Larson p.36) An organized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun in la...
the 1840s, but efforts by free blacks and sympathetic whites to help slaves escape bondage had occurred earlier. Historians have noted that groups of Quakers in the North, most notably around Philadelphia, had a tradition of helping escaped...
Railroad development was a key to the revitalization of Colorado in the course of the 1870s Introduction When the Mexican War ended in 1848, the land that was to become Colorado was virtually uninhabited of white settlers. English-speaking ...
Transcontinental Railroad Introduction The Transcontinental Railroad is a historic endeavor, which was affected by many factors; especially, political, economic and racial. The purpose of building the transcontinental railroad was to bridge...
railroads was authorized by the Congress. These two railroads linked Midwest and the West Coast while Union Pacific Railroad extended westward from Nebraska while the Central Pacific Railroad went eastward from the Pacific Ocean. In the Wes...
the Civil War to a clandestine operation in which runaway slaves were aided in their flights to freedom in Canada or the far northern reaches of the United States by abolitionists. The term Underground Railroad can be traced to about 1830, ...