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Underground Railroad


Underground Railroad

noun

Definition of UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

: a system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the United States before 1863 by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach the North or Canada —called also Underground Railway
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First Known Use of UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

1842

Rhymes with UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

middle-of-the-road

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