A main contribution to the abolition of slavery was the secretive Underground Railroad. Slavery was an immense issue during the Civil War in the eighteen-hundreds. It created an imaginary line between the white settlers and the black people. The majority of this matter was amongst the Southerners. The South believe that black people were inept of looking after themselves. Essentially, the Southerners believed they were doing the black population a favor by keeping them as slaves by feeding, providing, and occupying them. The Northerner’s opinions differed slightly from the South. They agreed that the white community were superior to the black people, but disagreed with the charity of slavery. This is where the Underground Railroad came upon.
The term was essentially a code word. It was not underground nor an actual railroad. The nickname was used to disguise its illegal actions. The Underground Railroad was a series of stations that assisted escaped slaves to achieve freedom. The Railroad workers were a combination of white settlers, already freed slaves, and Native Americans. Together they aided in getting the escapees to travel to the North, were slavery did not exist. The slaves were able to find this freedom with the help of the North Star. The North Star was an indication of the direction the slaves could travel toward
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The slaves eventually gain political power to fight for their rights. Courageous African Americans began to speak out as leaders for the slave population. For example, Fredrick Douglass, a former slave, stood up for the slave’s human rights in the abolition of slavery. Douglass eventually became an anti-slavery lecturer and informed the public on the traumatic experience of being on the other side as a slave. Without the Underground Railroad these celebrity fugitives would not have been able to speak up for their own