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What was a 'conductor ' on the underground railroad?

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The "underground railroad" was neither a railroad, nor underground. It was a system of anti-slavery sympathizers, many Southerners, who helped escaped slaves make their way to freedom in the North prior to the US Civil War.

A "conductor" was someone who accompanied and guided the slaves as they moved between "stations" (houses and farms) as they made their way, over days or weeks, to the non-slave states.

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