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Thousands of enslaved people escaped north, some helped by a secret network of Black and white "conductors". Students follow the routes from the slave states to the free states and Canada, and meet Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and William Still.
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- Explain what the Underground Railroad was and how it worked.
- Describe the escapes and work of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Henry "Box" Brown.
- Explain how the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 pushed many freedom seekers on to Canada.