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underground railroad
noun
- Also called un顎僤erground rail顎僿ay. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
- (often initial capital letters) U.S. History. (before the abolition of slavery) a system for helping African Americans fleeing slavery to escape into Canada or other places of safety.
underground railroad
noun
- often capitals (in the pre-Civil War US) the system established by abolitionists to aid escaping slaves
Underground Railroad
- A network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or in Canada before the Civil War . The escaped slaves traveled from one 鈥渟tation鈥 of the railroad to the next under cover of night. Harriet Tubman was the most prominent 鈥渃onductor鈥 on the Underground Railroad.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of underground railroad1
Idioms and Phrases
A secret network for moving and housing fugitives, as in There's definitely an underground railroad helping women escape abusive husbands . This term, dating from the first half of the 1800s, alludes to the network that secretly transported runaway slaves through the northern states to Canada. It was revived more than a century later for similar escape routes.Example Sentences
The story is rooted in chilling and realistic descriptions of slavery on a Georgia plantation, but here the famed path to freedom is a literal underground railroad.
The first women to earn bachelor鈥檚 degrees in 1836 did so at Oberlin College, an abolitionist institution that was also a stopover point on one of the many networks of the Underground Railroad that supported African Americans freeing themselves from slavery.
鈥淭he Underground Railroad鈥 star Pierre voiced Mufasa in Barry Jenkins鈥 prequel 鈥淢ufasa: The Lion King,鈥 which hit screens in December and earned a Razzie nomination for worst remake, rip-off or sequel.
Churches played a role in the anti-slavery Underground Railroad that guided fugitives northward.
鈥淵ou might see a model of the Underground Railroad being practiced here,鈥 Torres said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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