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Thomas Garret was an abolitionists and a leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the Civil War. He was born on August 27, 1789.
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The Underground Railroad started in 1819 or during the Civil War when the South started bringing Africans to America as slaves.
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100,000 slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was very successful.
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Harriet Tubman was a very famous conductor who was born in 1820 and escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1849. Harriet went back South after escaping to help thousands of other slaves escape.
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The Secret Language of Quilts was created when the Underground Raiload started in 1830
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Frederick Douglass was a famous abolitionist who was born in February 1818 and escaped from slavery. Later on, he started the North Star newspaper which was a anti-slavery newspaper in the North. And was published on December 3, 1847.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was passed on September 18, 1850. It allowed slave catchers to go into the Northern states and bring runaway slaves back to the South. This made the Underground Railroad operation harder because slave catchers would be on the lookout so the Underground Railroad would have to take slaves all the way up to Canada.
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The Civil War starts.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was created on March 3, 1865. And helped abandoned slaves who have escaped from slavery. they healed them, and provided them with food and water.
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The Underground Railroad ended in 1865 after the Civil War ended which was on May 9, 1865.
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Slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment on December 31, 1865.
