Illustration by Leeay. Whenever I see a magic trick, Iâm never content to just simply enjoy it; I have to know how it works so I can re-create it on my own. Iâm also really, really bad at sitting still: I can never just watch a movie; I always have to be doing something with my hands.
Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of abolitionists who helped African Americans escape from enslavement in the American South to free Northern states or to Canada. It was the largest anti-slavery freedom movement in North America, having brought between 30,000 and 40,000 fugitives to British North America (Canada).
Not content to wait for laws to change or for slavery to implode itself, railroad activists helped individual fugitive slaves find the light of freedom. Harriet Tubman is sometimes referred to as the Moses of her people because of the way she led them out of slavery. The Underground Railroad operated at night. Slaves were moved from station to station by abolitionists. These stations were usually homes and churches â any safe place to rest and eat before continuing on the journey to freedom, as faraway as Canada.