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Meanings of Underground Railroad in English

Portuguese
underground railroad
Catalan
underground railroad
Spanish
ferrocarril subterráneo

Secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War.

underground railroad
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Examples for "Underground Railway"
Examples for "Underground Railway"
1
Travel, I beg you, on the Underground Railway, or in a Tube.
Yet Again
2
The Metropolitan Underground Railway sent most complete information covering its most interesting work.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
3
I've been watching your Underground Railway for quite a time.
Mr. Standfast
4
Advertising enthusiast on his holiday seeking inspiration for a new advertisement for the Underground Railway.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920
5
Your servants have gone by the Underground Railway-toFrance.
Mr. Standfast
Usage of Underground Railroad in English
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The Underground Railroad was another project which involved large numbers of whites.
The Black Experience in America
2
This Underground Railroad was not a railroad, and it was not underground.
This Country of Ours
3
The Underground Railroad is one sentence in one paragraph in our history books.
Ebony
4
It includes more than 40 historically significant sites related to the Underground Railroad.
Ebony
5
Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained.
The Underground Railroad / A Record of Facts, Authentic Narrativ...
6
This gave rise to what was known as the Underground Railroad.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
7
A huge moral dilemma arises when Honor becomes involved with the Underground Railroad.
The Guardian
8
But then how did this COFFIN77 become part of the Evo Underground Railroad?
Catch and Kill
9
And, he starts the Underground Railroad program in the mid 1980s.
The new yorker
10
The Underground Railroad was more than a symbolic attack on the institution of slavery.
The Black Experience in America
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Another sign of Northern feeling was the sympathy now shown for the Underground Railroad.
A Brief History of the United States
12
In a sense, the Underground Railroad was a secret organization.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 /...
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The Underground Railroad was never coextensive with the abolition movement.
The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm
14
Don't you know this is how the Underground Railroad works?
Catch and Kill
15
About this time he became an active member of the " Underground Railroad."
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 /...
16
Lenin Underground Railroad' and a bit lower, 'Smolenskaya Station.' The high oak doors were ajar.
Metro 2033
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