How to Use Underground Railroad in a Sentence

Underground Railroad

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  • The Underground Railroad is more of a movement than a path.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
  • What to learn more about the Underground Railroad and see it through the eyes of people like Thornton and Lucie?
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
  • It is also rumored to have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In addition, according to local lore, the cave was the second-to-last-stop on the Underground Railroad.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The Underground Railroad used quilt codes to send secret messages.
    — al, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The tunnel entrance is also believed to have been one of the various outlets for the Underground Railroad.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2023
  • Turner is always on the lookout for a connection, a story on the Underground Railroad.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Tubman returned to Maryland at least 13 times to rescue as many as 70 enslaved people through the Underground Railroad.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Bounties were placed on his head and assassination attempts were made against him and his family in response to his work on the Underground Railroad.
    — TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Cincinnati has a rich Underground Railroad history, and some Glendale residents think their village played a key role in it.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 16 June 2024
  • Northside was also known as a safe haven for Underground Railroad travelers.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
  • This is the Underground Railroad’s multiperson memoir, with all the power and gravitas of an epic poem.
    — Kai Thomas, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Over the decades their rustic dwelling continued to rub against history, as a site of bloodshed in the colonial wars against Native Americans, and later as a station on the Underground Railroad.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Tubman’s relationship with entities of the natural world was central to her work on the Underground Railroad.
    — Tiya Miles, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
  • The overhead set piece also features patterns found on quilts hung outside houses, quietly marking them as stations of the Underground Railroad.
    — Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • William Lambert, a pivotal organizer of Detroit's role in the Underground Railroad, helped free thousands of enslaved people.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This incredible movie tells the awe-inspiring and harrowing story of Harriet Tubman and her many journeys back and forth on the Underground Railroad.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Nathan was posthumously honored by the National Underground Railroad Network in 2012 for his efforts.
    — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Among those buried here: Underground Railroad conductors.
    — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • Guiding their efforts is a dedicated pastor in South Korea with extensive contacts in the Underground Railroad for defectors, plus his own scars from years of this hazardous work.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Underground Railroad ran straight through Philadelphia.
    — Andrew Diemer, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • This has long been Operation Underground Railroad’s ethos.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The real Ballard hasn’t claimed to do anything quite like that, but the film ends with a montage of clips from sting operations his group, Operation Underground Railroad, actually conducted in the country.
    — Herb Scribner and Will Sommer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
  • In the museum, Cross plans to show how certain topics — from the Underground Railroad or Reconstruction — are interconnected.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2024
  • Instead, she’s celebrated as more of a mythic figure, the specifics of her arduous journeys on the Underground Railroad overlooked in favor of sweeping heroic narratives.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Many pivotal steps to end slavery were acts of refusal: The Underground Railroad was created because abolitionists refused to be complicit in oppression and abuse.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • Not only did enslavers pursue fugitives, but there was also a reverse Underground Railroad, where predators kidnapped legally free Black people, often children, and sold them south into bondage.
    — Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This novel offers a new perspective on the workings of the Underground Railroad, with its setting across several actual communities in northern Ohio in the mid-19th century.
    — The Know, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • There is extensive instruction on the history and economics of the development of slavery, as well as abolitionism, slave revolts, and the Underground Railroad.
    — The Editors, National Review, 25 July 2023
  • Some are critical of how the material is presented, especially the emphasis on the Underground Railroad.
    — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022

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