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jefferson davis started the war by arguing with the secession and then the war
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Once the slaves heard about the war they knew that they where going to be put to work so they ran away
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It was used to transport slaves underground but then was abandoned and the slaves took it as a home to live in secret.
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Harriet
Tubman was the one to rescue 300 slaves from plantations and bring them to the railroads -
Tubman brought slaves to the abandon railroads to live and Elisha got a lot of friends and family from Tubman
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Elijah was born in a secret slave home in a abandon free slave railroad.
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Civil War Laws
They were not fair to slaves because the laws would let slave owners bet them up in auctions. -
When the civil war occurred slave auctions went up and made slaves more valuable and that made the railroads more valuable too
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Elijah made more friends from all the free slaves coming into the railroad systems
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slave population
By the middle of the war 12% of the country was slaves. The secret slave railroads were becoming more and more popular.
