Essay On How Did The Underground Railroad Contribute To The Abolition Of Slavery

All people. regardless of race, religion, or gender, are human beings, they should be treated fairly and equally, although even in modern society, that is unfortunately often not the case. Peaceful resistances help shape our nation as a whole, and bring us together in a way that created a more diverse and understanding culture. While there will always be people who refuse to accept changes like this, civil disobedience leads to the betterment of society and more equality for everyone by making people more aware of the problems at hand.

Hua 1 Edison Hua Ms. Rehling GATE English 8 13 October 2015 Contributors to the Underground Railroad In 1810 to 1850, slavery was major profit in the South. People from Africa were kidnapped and taken to work as slaves in the colonies. Life as a slave was harsh, cold, cruel, and life threatening. As a result, many people opposed slavery by creating the Underground Railroad.

The North was opposed to slavery. They believed that it was unjust to force others to work on someone else’s behalf. However is they chose to work then they deserved some sort of compensation. One last reason why the North did not support slavery was because they felt that African Americans were people and should not be treated like or sold as property.

America was first introduced to African slaves by the Dutch in 1619. America became a society where slavery is both legal and normative. Slavery escalated into more than two hundred years of an economic dependency on slaves. Transitioning from slavery to freedom put forward questions about the status of the newly freed.

Were slaves hidden to not be found by white and blacks. He brought a train to go from Baltimore to Wilmington to Pennsylvania and New York. To protect himself from his owner he goes to England so his friends collects money and brought him from his

During the Underground Railroad’s time it freed more than 6,000 people. The system ran from about 1780 till the beginning of the Civil War in 1862. The system’s goal was to helps slave escape to Canada to gain their freedom. Many things and people played a role in the system to even get it started. Major people were involved, starting with the Quakers.

Stoll 1 Brooke Stoll Dougherty 8th Grade Language Arts Tuesday, May 2017 Harriet Tubman Have you heard of people using the Underground Railroad to escape slavery?  Many people helped conduct it.   Including a five foot two inches women named Harriet Tubman.

The slaves were secretly transported from one house to another. The abolitionist Harriet Tubman escaped from the North, and she started rescuing slaves via the Underground Railroad. She became the conductor of the Underground Railroad. The colonization movement was a large anti-slavery movement that was supported by Southerners.

This separated the North and the South

The Significance of Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s involvement in the Underground Railroad (as part of the Abolitionist Movement, 1850-1860) The Underground Railroad is not what it may appear in its most literal sense; it is in fact a symbolical term for the two hundred year long struggle to break free from slavery in the U.S. It encompasses every slave who tried to escape and every free person who helped them to do so. The origins of the railroad are hidden in obscurity yet eventually it expanded into one of the earliest Civil Rights movements in the US.

One of the most influential modes of unorganized revolution was through running away. Thousands of slaves would take their families or escape on their own to the north, where many abolitionists and free black men lived and would take them in. However, crossing the border states was difficult, as news reports about runaway slaves quickly spread and they would soon be captured by local townsfolk. To make escape more effective and safe, an underground railroad was adopted. The underground railroad was “a loosely organized network of safe houses in the border states, [and they] helped more than 20,000 runaways make their way to freedom (PBS).

The Underground Railroad. A metaphor as it was, it was neither a railroad nor was it even underground. In the time where slavery became a divided issue with the status of legality in various parts of the country, the underground railroad found its beginnings through collective organized efforts from abolitionists and allies alike to help enslaved African americans to escape to territories and states where they could be free from slavery. It was a loosely-developed system that also included series of routes led by “conductors” such as Harriet Tubman, for escaping slaves, or “passengers”.

“I look to the day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” said Martin Luther King jr. Frederick Douglass and Jackie Robinson helped make Martin Luther King jr’s dream possible. Jackie Robinson and Frederick Douglass both fought for racial equality by speaking and participating against racial inequality. Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and fought for racial equality by speaking at abolitionist meetings. For example, the text “Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom” Steven mintz states, “ As a traveling lecturer, Douglass electrified audiences with his first‐hand accounts of slavery.

The total Abolition of slavery, which was supported by the majority of the American population, lead to other events such as: the reconstruction of the country, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan know as the KKK’s, the migration patterns, some new types of discriminations, and consequently the number of black’s who

Cooperation and coordination were also critical for the Underground Railroad. Everyone involved had to do what they were told, whether they had an explanation or not. Everything had to work like clockwork, even if something might not be going quite as planned. They all had to be flexible, in order to adapt to problems that were certain to come up. All involved with the Underground Railroad also had to have a special heart to be willing to aid slaves in escaping to freedom.