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Vocabulary
abolition

Noun ending or wiping out of something, usually referring to the ending of slavery.


abolitionist

Noun person who opposes slavery.


captive

Adjective captured or enslaved.


climate

Noun in the Underground Railroad, a person who guided slaves to safety and freedom.


discrimination

Noun treatment based on a group to which a person belongs, not the person himself.


emancipation

Noun freedom.


flee

Verb to run away.


Frederick Douglass

Noun (1818-1895) American civil rights pioneer and a leader in the fight to end slavery.


free state

Noun nation or country that outlaws slavery.


Harriet Tubman

Noun (1820-1913) American abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad.


passenger

Noun in the Underground Railroad, a runaway slave seeking freedom.


pilot

Noun in the Underground Railroad, a person who went to slave states to find slaves seeking freedom and willing to risk their lives to achieve it.


route

Noun path or way.


slave hunter

Noun person who seeks out runaway slaves in order to return them to slavery.


slavery

Noun process and condition of owning another human being or being owned by another human being.


slave state

Noun nation or country where slavery is legal.


station

Noun in the Underground Railroad, a safe place where runaway slaves could hide.


territory

Noun land an animal, human, or government protects from intruders.


Underground Railroad

Noun system used by abolitionists between 1800-1865 to help American slaves escape to free states.