The Underground Railroad in
Virginia was a series of secret networks, often working independently of one another
and manned by both free
blacks and whites, designed to help enslaved African Americans escape to the North and to
Canada. Such networks were less necessary in the earliest days of slavery in Virginia
because runaways tended
to stay relatively close to home. Only after the American Revolution (1775–1783), when northern
states ou. . .
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