Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject History - America, language: English, abstract: This paper explains the "Underground Railroad", a system of support for enslaved African Americans who tried to escape slavery and reach the free Northern states.



It shows:



What the Underground Railroad was;

How it worked;

Who was involved;

What the consequences of its existence were for the Southern as well as the Nothern states of the U.S.