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English: "Routes of the Underground Railroad." Whole map of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but a network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada.
Date Copyrighted originally in 1898.
Source http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/CWPics/86139.jpg. Compiled from "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom" by Wilbur H. Siebert, The Macmillan Company, 1898.[1]
Author

https://lccn.loc.gov/68003375

Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961. The underground railroad from slavery to freedom. With an introd. by Albert Bushnell Hart. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1968 [c1898] xxvi, 478 p. illus., facsim., fold. map, ports. 21 cm. E450 .S57 1968
  1. ↑ Compare to http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/anti-slavery/033004-3000-e.html

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Routes of the Underground Railroad

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current15:48, 29 July 2024Thumbnail for version as of 15:48, 29 July 20248,345 × 4,128 (10.41 MB)JengodHigher resolution, wider crop, source https://archive.org/details/DKC0090/page/n141/mode/2up
10:29, 8 November 2005Thumbnail for version as of 10:29, 8 November 20051,035 × 600 (274 KB)JA1BSR~commonswikiReduced map of the underground railroad. Original source(via English Wikipedia): http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/CWPics/86139.jpg Copyrighted originally in 1895. {{PD-old}}

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