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The history of slavery in the United States began in the 17th century, before the War of Independence, and ended only two and a half centuries later, along with the American Civil War. Even though all this time the struggle against slavery did not stop, until the ratification of the 13th Amendment by the US Congress in 1865, which marked the complete abolition of slavery, the Black population of the United States had just one path to freedom, and that was escape.
In the new episode of HOW IT WAS, we'll talk about the Underground Railroad, a system of secret routes used by Black slaves in the United States to make their way from the slaveholding southern states to the free northern states. We'll talk about Levi Coffin, who was called the president of the Underground Railroad, and about the abolitionist Harriet Tubman, one of its most successful conductors, whose portrait will soon appear on the $20 bill. You will learn how this system worked, why it had no railroad tracks, who was financing it, and how, despite the efforts of politicians, slave owners, and slave catchers, the Unde
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