Interesting Facts on the Underground Railroad

Interesting Facts on the Underground Railroad:

1. Quakers, Dunkers, Mennonites, and Shakers were involved with the Underground Railroad.

2. At the stations, slaves would hide in passages, basements, cellars, and cupboards.

3. Around 100,000 slaves escaped using the Underground Railroad.

4. Harriet Tubman was called "the Moses of her people."

5. Railroads ran to Mexico and the Caribbean as well as North.

6. A man named John Rankin, a Presbyterian minister, had a station that was used very often.

7. Of the 100,000 estimated to have escaped on the Underground Railroad, 40,000 were estimated to have gone to modern day Ontario.

8. Escaping slaves would follow the North Star to freedom.

9. Safe houses on the railroad, called stations, were 10 to 30 miles apart from each other.

1o. Tice Davids was the first slave to run away. He crossed the Ohio River near Ripley, Ohio.

11. Most freedom seekers were 16-35 year-old men.