THE CIVIL WAR 
                                                                     
                                           


Slavery was a reality in our country before the Civil Civil Rights. Many slaves risked their lives for a chance to be free.

For most, that meant traveling on the "Underground Railroad". This wasn't a railroad but a chain of safe houses called "stations" and free citizens and escaped slaves, like Harriet Tubman,
who were willing to transport and hide the "runners". Rewards were offered by slave owners for the return of their "property".
 Discovery by slave hunters would mean severe punishment for all involved so secrecy was critical. Signals, codes and quilts with hidden messages and secret rooms.
 We are all a part of the mystery of the "Underground Railroad". Escaped slaves were transported secretly from station to station, often hiding in the back of hay wagons.
Chances were taken and the reward was freedom in Canada!
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book and Frederick Douglas published a paper about abolished of slavery.