The Underground Railroad

und Railroad in essence was a septa bus in modern times, stops would be made to pick up more people. In the time of slavery these supporters would be in charge of this expedition and pick up more slaves to take them to there requested destinations.
             "The most intriguing feature of the Underground Railroad was its lack of formal organization"(Gorrell, 42). The Underground Railroad relied on the much needed help of individuals who were of various ethnic groups and religions, who helped the African Americans, escape from slavery. There were many odd things that occurred through out the period of the Underground Railroad. The people who actually participated in the Underground Railroad "hid or many times destroyed their personal journals to protect themselves and the runaways."(Fradin 24). To protect the secrecy of the Underground Railroad, it was never talked about formally. Many of the terms that had something to do with the Underground Railroad were always informally used and there were codes to translate these phrases. One may say that it was not possible for such a disorganized event to be so successful, but nonetheless it was very successful and with the help of different backgrounds and ethnic groups coming together, the Underground Railroad was something that was even hard to picture.
             The north and the south had extremely different opinions on slavery. Slavery caused many communication problems between both the north and the south. There was much discrepancy between the south and the north. The idea of a nation being one was forgotten so soon already. Slavery had torn apart a nation which was growing in numbers. Slavery had been an issue between the north and the south for a long of period of time and as two grew further apart so did there opinions on slavery. This caused many problems and much would have to be done to resolve this issue.
             In the south the views on slavery were very unique. In the south, respect was gained w...

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