The Underground Railroad was a vast but secret network of travel routes and safe havens to help fugitives escape slavery, most heavily travelled between 1820 and 1865. Those escaping the slave state of Kentucky likely followed a route northwest by crossing the Ohio River into southern Illinois. Despite its Free State status, there was still hostility toward African Americans in the region, making it dangerous territory for freedom seekers and abolitionists. To avoid detection, escapees avoided…
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