The Underground Railroad

A Underground Railroad da e la lambo network ko secret routes ane safe houses nang taa toma ko a ka ba zo yi Northern United Statehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad#CITEREFHudson2015s ane Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans ane  African Americans nang da zo yi a 16th century; Ba gyamaa zaa nang da zo da ba taa sammo.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service https://dspace.njstatelib.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/2d0a25c0-0b00-4c37-a53f-b8888b3e2193/contenthttps://books.google.com/books?id=7m8mTMjMSRYC&q=unaidedNeng a lɛ zaa, a network ko yisonne nang be a Underground Railroad da piilee ka ba lambo 1780s neng a Abolitionist Societies nang be a North.https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/ugrr/exugrr2.htm#:~:text=The%20runaways%20became%20%22contraband%2C%22,the%20Army%20were%20initially%20rebuffed.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html O zo gaa north nang da bebe ne a Emancipation Proclamation da taa la saane neng 1863 yi President Abraham Lincoln.https://www.thoughtco.com/ways-slaves-showed-resistance-to-slavery-45401 A gbangba ɛda  zo gaa la a free states, a da gaa be a Canada.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55277-581-3

A Underground Railroad started zie nang be enslavement. A sori nang be a natural ane man-made maaloo kyaare neng sori tuubu: rivers, canals, bays, a Atlantic Coast, ferries ane river crossings, roads ane trails. Bezie nang e ports, free territories ane international boundaries prompted gyamaa zie nang da zo.

A network, toma ko a  African Americans,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1494767983 da taa la sommo ko abolitionists ane sympathetic ko a zozoreba mine.https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Underground%20Railroad A noba bana nang da zo da tue soe mine Railroad, tutaalong. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.htmlSobi-gyamaa ko a Mexico,https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-29/underground-railroad-took-slaves-freedom-mexico be gbangbaalong nang da ba taa eebo, ane a islands nang be Caribbean nang da ba paale a gbangbaalong nakoɔlong.https://archive.org/details/sheoh017_Jones_Leesa_transcript A sobiri nang be a south kyaare Florida, neng  a Spanish taabo (kyɛ kyɛrɛɛ 1763–1783), nang da tong toma yi a 17th century te ta nang na bang ta 1790.https://web.archive.org/web/20120321073827/https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiODwWs22MG9qBGQ_ZI9U-6W3s9g?docId=b67287f0636841dfbad57fb14222cd97 https://web.archive.org/web/20180213021610/https://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-02-14/features/9301090665_1_slaves-underground-railroad-francisco-menendez/2A saŋa nang American Civil War, emmaarong boɔre Union lines nang be South ka ba nyɛ emmaarong. Peɛroo mine wuli ka  1850, ka foo nang yɛre o 100,000 gbangbaɛ da zo boɔrɔ emmaarong network. Yele yi a dasaŋa professor ko a Pan-African studies J. Blaine Hudson, nang da e wedere ko a College of Arts ane Sciences a University of Louisville, a baaroo saŋa a Civil War, 500,000 bee gyamaa  African Americans da taa la bamenne guubu  gbangbaalong kyaare a Underground Railroad.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad#CITEREFHudson2015

 Terminology 
Membare ko a Underground Railroad da tona neng la lamboe mine, nang be a metaphor ko a railway. Aseŋ:

 People who helped fugitive slaves find the railroad were "agents"
 Guides were known as "conductors"
 Hiding places were "stations" or "way stations"
 "Station masters" hid escaping slaves in their homes
 People escaping slavery were referred to as "passengers" or "cargo"
 Fugitive slaves would obtain a "ticket"
 Similar to common gospel lore, the "wheels would keep on turning"
 Financial benefactors of the Railroad were known as "stockholders"
 Promised Land – code word for Canada
 River Jordan – code word for Ohio River
 Heaven – code for freedom or Canada

A Big Dipper (nang e "laa" magere ko North Star) da e la a drinkin' gourd. A Railroad meng da e la  "freedom train" bee "Gospel train", nang da kyaare a  "Heaven" bee "a Promised Land", i.e., Canada.
Nembanne Mine
 Ann Bamford
 John Brown
 Owen Brown (father)
 Owen Brown (son)
 Samuel Burris
 Obadiah Bush
 Levi Coffin
 George CorElizabeth Rous Comstockson
 Moses Dickson
 Frederick Douglass
 Asa Drury
 George Hussey Earle Sr.
 Calvin Fairbank
 Bartholomew Fussell
 Matilda Joslyn Gage
 Thomas Galt
 Thomas Garrett
 Sydney Howard Gay
 Josiah Bushnell Grinnell
 Frances Harper
 Laura Smith Haviland
 Lewis Hayden
 John Hunn
 Roger Hooker Leavitt
 Jermain Wesley Loguen
 Samuel Joseph May
 John Berry Meachum
 Mary Meachum
 Cynthia Catlin Miller
 William M. Mitchell
 Solomon Northup
 John Parker
 Elijah F. Pennypacker
 Mary Ellen Pleasant
 John Wesley Posey
 Amy and Isaac Post
 Peter Quire
 John Rankin
 Alexander Milton Ross
 David Ruggles
 Gerrit Smith
 George Luther Stearns
 William Still
 John Ton
 Charles Turner Torrey
 William Troy
 Harriet Tubman
 Martha Coffin Wright
 John Van Zandt
 Bernardhus Van Leer
 Silvia and John Webber
 Edward Wetheril
 A popular culture 

 Daanoo ko fiction 

 The Underground Railroad is a 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead. It won the 2016 National Book Award and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 The Underground Railroad is a 2021 streaming television limited series, based on Whitehead's novel.
 Underground is an American television series that premiered in 2016, on WGN America.

 Yelkaama 

 David Walker (1829) Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Uncle Tom's Cabin
 Caroline Lee Hentz (1854) The Planter's Northern Bride
 William M. Mitchell (1860) The Under-Ground Railroad
 Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1869) Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman; (1896) Harriet Tubman, Moses of Her People
 Barbara Smucker, (1977) Underground to Canada

 Kaa kyɛ 

 United States portal

 Ausable Chasm, NY, home of the North Star Underground Railroad Museum
 Caroline Quarlls (1824–1892), first known person to escape slavery through Wisconsin's Underground Railroad
 Fort Mose Historic State Park
 Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History near Dresden, Ontario
 List of Underground Railroad sites
 Tilly Escape
 Timbuctoo, New York.

 Nimitɔɔre kannoo 

 (Stories about Thomas Garrett, a famous agent on the Underground Railroad)
 (Classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia).
 The Underground Railroad public domain audiobook at LibriVox
 ; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017 for its poetical, mythical reflection on the meaning of the Railroad in American history.

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A Underground Railroad

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 Underground Railroad – National Park Service
 Underground Railroad: Language of Slavery
 Underground Railroad Studies
 Underground Railroad Timeline
 Friends of the Underground Railroad
 National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
 Underground Railroad Research Institute at Georgetown College[usurped]
 Underground Railroad in Buffalo and Upstate New York: A bibliography by The Buffalo History Museum
 Newspaper articles and clippings about the Underground Railroad at Newspapers.com

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