Harriet Tubman And The Underground Railroad Essay

“I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves” , this quote was said by Harriet Tubman, the leader of the underground railroad, she freed some of the slaves, which caused the Southern states to resent the North. The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and secret routes, led by Harriet Tubman and a vast number of other people.

19th century enslaved people used the Underground Railroad to free themselves and others from slavery. The slaves went to the Free states and Canada, the Underground Railroad only worked at night, the slaves would move from “station” to “station”, meaning they'd move from safe house to safe house, most of the time it was difficult because of slave catchers

Also, Thomas Garrett was a Quaker from Wilmington. Delaware. He worked closely with Harriet Tubman and many others that led slaves out of Maryland. William Still was a free black man that lived in Philadelphia; he was at the main point of the Underground Railroad activities in the east. He had many fugitives from Maryland, and he helped fugitives in Philadelphia find homes and jobs. He encouraged the escaped slaves to keep on moving towards Canada. There was also Samuel Burris; he was another leader of the Underground Railroad leading down into Maryland. He was a free black man that was born in Delaware and moved to Philadelphia where his family could be in a free state. He was very active in the activities of the Underground Railroad. He worked very closely with Benjamin Still and Thomas Garrett. The Underground Railroad caused many conflicts between the North and the South, the Southern states were resenting the north because the North was against slavery all together and thought that the south had no right to kidnap the slaves that escaped to Free states and bring them back to the south to be enslaved again. In some cases, free blacks would get kidnapped and taken for slavery because the bounty hunters couldn’t find the escaped