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The Underground Railroad was a system of escape routes, safehouses, and committed anti-slavery activists who helped enslaved people escape to freedom in Canada. Thousands fled to freedom thanks to this multiracial movement led by free African Americans.

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60-Second Civics, Episode 5312: February 17, 2025 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4255: February 13, 2021)

Images: Slide 1: Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora; Slide 2: Center for Civic Education and Canva; Slides 3-9: Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora; Slides 10 and 11: Center for Civic Education and Canva