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The Underground Railroad And The Resistance Movement

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Just as the resistance movement in France, Belgium and Poland in World War offered a safe harbor for fugitive Jews, the Underground Railroad offered safety for fugitive slaves. Both of these movements were to protect those who needed safety from being oppressed by their captors; for the Jews the government, for the slaves all those who where pro-slavery. The resistance movement for the Jews offered a chance to get to a place where the Germans had not yet occupied and thus get to safety from the Nazi’s. For the slaves the Underground Railroad offered the slaves an opportunity to get to Northern Lands were the people were against slavery. Both the Under Ground Railroad and the resistance movement of the Jews where begun by those who opposed
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