Spirituals provided a coded means of communication among freedom seekers by
The language of the railroad provided an effective secret code because
Once freedom seekers made it to the North, they automatically became American citizens.
From which groups did the underground railroad receive its financial support?
The Underground Railroad impacted national politics because plantation owners, especially in the southern states that bordered the North, pushed Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which, for the first time, made it a federal crime to assist freedom seekers.
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in our country in 1863, brought the impact of the abolition movement and the underground railroad to a conclusion.