Did any slaves get captured while traveling on the underground railroad?
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Yes.  The underground railroad was not a real railroad.  It involved basically smuggling people through Southern states until they reached a Northern state where there was no slavery.
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i would think not.  the lawn jockey was used to show run away slaves that the owner of the house would hide them duing the civil war
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I think it was wrong that it ever existed in the first place - and yes it needed to end, but...........\n\nIt is interesting to note that when slavery was finally abolished, many newly freed men and women suddenly found themselves without homes, without food and without work.\n\nAs such, no small number actually asked the ex-slave owners if they could continue working for them under the same terms as before. This was especially the case where the slave-owner had been one who was reluctant to use the whip and was a more agreeable "master" than most of the others.
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I think the question is how WEREN'T they punished!! \n\nThe slaves were not treated as human beings, they were treated like animals....actually worse than animals....this is a powerful subject....you should definitely do a lot of research into this, there are many resources on the slave trade. Try your local library, ask the librarian for help.
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I am guessing you are talking of the organized aid to people in slavery in the USA.\n\nThe National Park Service has details at http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/\n\nUC Davis, University of California has a similar site at http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm.\n\nAnother useful site :\n\nhttp://collections.ic.gc.ca/underground/flightall.html.\n\nThe National Geographic has an interactive feature on it at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j2.html
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They didn't choose to do so.  They were forced into slavery.
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Here is what I found about the information you described.\n\n1764 In this year, the captain of a new London brig from Connecticut lost his life in a slave uprising at Goree, a slave port located off the coast of Africa. The upraising occurred at night while most of the ship’s crew was asleep. \n\nHere is the link.\nhttp://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_insurrection.htm\n\nWhat all this means to me is, they did this operation at night to cover up what they were doing.  Supposely, if they came during lighted (daytime) hours, lives would have been lost.\n\nIt is kind of like drug operations.   I don't know this for sure, but I would guess that drug operations are performed during the night when it is hard to tell what people are doing.   It is hard to see stuff at night, and not as many people are out during the night.\n\nAlso, that last sentence at the very top that says they unloaded at night while the other ship's crews were asleep.  That statement sounds like other ship crews would kill to steal other people's slaves.  So they had to find a way to get the slaves in and out without other people in the business taking them away.\n\nNot sure if this helps, but that is what I found according to the information that you provided.
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The emancipation proclamation freed the SLAVES in the SOUTH during the Civil War as declared by the US President, Abraham Lincoln.\n\nThe 13th amendment to the constitution FORBADE slavery throughout the United States after the war was over (and this was the legal freedom for slaves in the border states and NORTH).
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“Who Freed the Slaves?,” thought-provoking article written by James M. McPherson, asks who or what was responsible for freeing slaves in the United States. Was it Lincoln as most people presume or the slaves themselves?  McPherson explores many theories in this article, including ____________ , _____ and ________. For each theory he observes, probes and calls into question their stability from all points of view.\n\nI would summarize his theories in the blanks above, the way you had it listed before didn't make any sense.\n\nWhat was the assignment, just to summarize what the article discussed? Was there a conclusion in the article? If so, you should discuss the conclusion.
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Dred Scott was a runaway slave who made it to the north.  The court ruled that a runaway had to be returned to his owner in the south, even from a state that did not permit slavery.  This made a lot of northerners very angry, because they felt they were being forced to participate in slavery by the rule, or face prosecution.  As you know, many risked it anyway, and the underground railroad helped many escaped slaves to get to Canada, which did not send them back.
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It's about the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, and the various safe houses that the slaves could stay at overnight. It's also about how the slaves were treated by their "owners"
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abolition\n\nslavery was abolished in america, formally, in 1863 with lincoln's emancipation proclamation.\n\nslaves were not actually freed, however, until the north beat the south in the civil war.  even after that, texas still had many slaves until june of 1865 - the day they were freed is celebrated as "juneteenth."
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My hometown of Bristol(the Borough, not the Township) Pennsylvania is about to unveil this summer (ground has been broken and monument is already built) a statue of Harriet Tubman in honor of her role in "The Underground Railroad" to free slaves and lead them on their passage North. There are people out there in the U.S who recognize that this great country wouldn't be where it is today if not for the effort from the backs of the slaves back then. I agree it is time to give due credit. God Bless! Below is a link for the statue I mentioned above. It's a bit dated because the progress locally has been phenomonal with many locals (black & white) responding to the call of fundraising for it.
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In general, when slaves were freed by their masters, they took their masters last name. so if James Thompson had a slave named Joe, when Joe was freed, his name might become Joe Thompson.\nAnd most of them probably do, they just don't care to discuss it.
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Very few because there isn't any documentation of slaves and what they have are bills of sale. You would have to be living to be able to prove anything.
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Underground Railroad, in U.S. history, loosely organized system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or to areas of safety in free states. It was run by local groups of Northern abolitionists, both white and free blacks. The metaphor first appeared in print in the early 1840s, and other railroad terminology was soon added. The escaping slaves were called passengers; the homes where they were sheltered, stations; and those who guided them, conductors. This nomenclature, along with the numerous, somewhat glorified, personal reminiscences written by conductors in the postwar period, created the impression that the Underground Railroad was a highly systematized, national, secret organization that accomplished prodigious feats in stealing slaves away from the South. In fact, most of the help given to fugitive slaves on their varied routes north was spontaneously offered and came not only from abolitionists or self-styled members of the Underground Railroad, but from anyone moved to sympathy by the plight of the runaway slave before his eyes. The major part played by free blacks, of both North and South, and by slaves on plantations along the way in helping fugitives escape to freedom was underestimated in nearly all early accounts of the railroad. Moreover, the resourcefulness and daring of the fleeing slaves themselves, who were usually helped only after the most dangerous part of their journey (i.e., the Southern part) was over, were probably more important factors in the success of their escape than many conductors readily admitted. In some localities, like Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Wilmington, Del., and Newport, Ind. (site of the activities of Levi Coffin), energetic organizers did manage to loosely systematize the work; Quakers were particularly prominent as conductors, and among the free blacks the exploits of Harriet Tubman stand out. In all cases, however, it is extremely difficult to separate fact from legend, especially since relatively few enslaved blacks, probably no more than a few thousand a year between 1840 and 1860, escaped successfully. Far from being kept secret, details of escapes on the Underground Railroad were highly publicized and exaggerated in both the North and the South, although for different reasons. The abolitionists used the Underground Railroad as a propaganda device to dramatize the evils of slavery; Southern slaveholders publicized it to illustrate Northern infidelity to the fugitive slave laws. The effect of this publicity, with its repeated tellings and exaggerations of slave escapes, was to create an Underground Railroad legend that correctly represented a humanitarian ideal of the pre–Civil War period, but that strayed far from reality. The pioneer study is W. H. Siebert, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898, repr. 1968); for an extensively revised account, see Larry Gara, The Liberty Line (1961).
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NO, for alot of the former slaves that remained in the south, it was a hard time, alot tried to work for their former masters, but what the yankees hadn't destroyed the carpetbaggers robbed  by extremely high property taxes. alot of times the former master and former slave worked side by side to try to make a living. the yankee carpetbaggers that robbed the land hired the former slaves, on a kind of share crop, but the odds were stacked against the share cropper and the carpetbagger made more money, it was actually slavery, because no matter how hard they worked, the carpetbagger would charge them more. Some of the former slaves that went north, faired better, but their was resentment among the northern people from the former slaves taking jobs away from them.