What was the Underground railroad? ? a network of men and women opposed to slavery that sheltered runaway slaves and helped them find freedom ? a railroad that took slaves from the Mason-Dixon Line to Canada ? a real railroad built underground to help the slaves escape to freedom ? the name of Douglass' newspaper
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