The Underground Railroad by Elaine Landau

Author:Elaine Landau [Landau, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781464512162
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2015-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

What really happened . . .

All They Needed

The Underground Railroad did much more than just bring runaways North. It also had a number of groups set up to help the former slaves find a place to live. The groups found jobs for them too.

Frederick Douglass was a famous runaway helped by a New York committee. Douglass soon became active with the Underground Railroad himself. He also became a well-known anti-slavery speaker and writer. His powerful words moved the hearts and minds of many people.

You didn’t have to work on the Underground Railroad to help the system. One such man was a newspaper publisher named Elijah Lovejoy. Lovejoy often wrote articles against slavery and about the Underground Railroad. Slave owners wanted to put Lovejoy out of business. Pro-slavery mobs threw his printing presses into the Mississippi River three times.

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