DCHP-3

underground route

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a system set up by abolitionists in the United States to conduct Negro slaves to freedom, one of its branches leading into Canada.

Quotations

1852
Some noble specimens of humanity have come in by the underground route from Kentucky.