Pennsylvania was the center of the railroad. Three hundred blacks escaped to freedom,and Levi Coffin helped to free 3,000 slaves. Levi Coffin worked on being a president of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad was supposedly born from a slave. Some of the runaway slaves ran through swamps and woods, across lakes and through market squares.
Slaves come from as far as Virginia and Philadelphia.
The people who helped them gave them money,food,dry clothing,guides,hiding place. The most dangerous part of their trip was across the slaves' states to free territory without organized help. When they reached the free states,they were guided along prearranged underground railroad routes. On December 18,1865,at the end of the civil war,the constitution of the United states was changed to say that slavery was ended forever. Some master would make them work all day.