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You're using a dark mode gadget that interferes with this feature. Disable the gadget to use dark mode. The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States[1] and Eastern Canada. Slaves escaped from slavery as early as the 16th century; many of their escapes were unaided.[2][3][4] However, a network of safe houses generally known as the Underground Railroad began to organize in the 1780s among Abolitionist Societies in the North.[5][6] It ran north and grew steadily until President Abraham Lincoln[7] issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The escapees sought primarily to escape into free states, and potentially from there to Canada.[8] The Underground Railroad started at the place of enslavement. The routes followed natural and man-made modes of transportation: rivers, canals, bays, the Atlantic Coast, ferries and river crossings, roads and trails. Locations close to ports

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