Who was an Underground Railroad Station Master?

Thomas Garrett: Underground Railroad Stationmaster.



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Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's conductors. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.

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In “Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad,” published in November, Diemer tells the remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, a previously unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—the ...

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Known as the “Moses of her people,” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor of the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.

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Royal is a freeborn black man who rescues Cora from Ridgeway. Royal has an optimistic personality, and is dedicated to the pursuit of freedom both for himself and all black people. He is attractive and captivating, and the narrator notes that may people are charmed by his “exotic” demeanor.

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Harriet Tubman is most well-known for her work on the underground railroad. Prior to and during the Civil War era, she was called black Moses because, like Moses, she led people out of slavery.

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Moses Dickson (1824–1901) was an abolitionist, soldier, minister, and founder of the Knights of Liberty, an anti-slavery organization that planned a slave uprising in the United States and helped African-American enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

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