The Underground Railroad got its name from stories:
One night in 1831 a slave named Tice Davids escaped from Kentucky by swimming across the Ohio River. His owner searched but never found him. Later, the owner told his friends that Davids must have escaped on an underground road.
Years later a reporter said a captured slave talked about “a railroad that went underground all the way to Boston”
“Underground” meant it was a secret.
“Railroad” meant it was a way to travel from one point to another.
It was a hidden way to escape slavery
One night in 1831 a slave named Tice Davids escaped from Kentucky by swimming across the Ohio River. His owner searched but never found him. Later, the owner told his friends that Davids must have escaped on an underground road.
Years later a reporter said a captured slave talked about “a railroad that went underground all the way to Boston”
“Underground” meant it was a secret.
“Railroad” meant it was a way to travel from one point to another.
It was a hidden way to escape slavery