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- TUBMAN
- Harriet Tubman escaped Maryland in 1849 and went back many times to guide others north. She was nicknamed Moses.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CANADA
- Many fugitives pressed on to Canada, especially after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made the free states less safe.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- STILL
- William Still, a Philadelphia abolitionist, kept careful records of those he helped, later published as a book in 1872.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DOUGLASS
- Frederick Douglass escaped slavery in 1838 and later sheltered fugitives at his home in Rochester, New York.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Underground Railroad word search, free and printable with no sign-up. Follow Tubman's secret road north, past lantern-lit stations toward Canada.
About The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was never a railroad and never entirely underground. It was a network of safe houses, barns, churches and quiet people who sheltered those escaping slavery, and it borrowed the language of trains because that was the new marvel of the day. Most journeys went on foot at night, following rivers and the North Star, with a kitchen table or a cellar waiting at the end of each stretch.
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