Rotary club of Oakville – A Night at The Museum - Mar 2nd, 2020 Subject :- The Underground Railroad Location:- Oakville Museum at Erchless Estate at 8 Navy Street BULLETIN Editor – Tareq Nasser Club members met at the Oakville Museum and enjoyed a comprehensive guided tour at the museum including attending The Underground Railroad: Next Stop Freedom an exciting and moving multi-media presentation, the ghost of Deborah Brown tells the true story of her heroic flight from a life of slavery in Maryland to her new life of freedom in 19th-century Toronto. I highly recommend the tour and the multimedia presentation for you and your families. At the end of the tour members gathered at Bru Restaurant for drinks and dinner! Brief about the underground railroad: - Between 1840 and 1860, before the American Civil War, enslaved Africans followed the North Star on the Underground Railroad to find freedom in Canada
- The Underground Railroad was a secret network of abolitionists (people who wanted to abolish slavery). They helped African Americans escape from enslavement in the American South to free Northern states or to Canada. The Underground Railroad was the largest anti-slavery freedom movement in North America. It brought between 30,000 and 40,000 fugitives to British North America (now Canada).
- The Underground Railroad was created in the early 19th century by a group of abolitionists based mainly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Within a few decades, it had grown into a well-organized and dynamic network. The term “Underground Railroad” began to be used in the 1830s. By then, an informal covert network to help fugitive slaves had already taken shape.
- The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad and it did not run on railway tracks. It was a complex, clandestine network of people and safe houses that helped persons enslaved in Southern plantations reach freedom in the North. The network was maintained by abolitionists who were committed to human rights and equality. They offered help to fleeing slaves. Their ranks included free Blacks, fellow enslaved persons, White and Indigenous sympathizers, Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, inhabitants of urban center and farmers, men and women, Americans and Canadians.
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