The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad. It was a safe way for African-American slaves to escape slavery by going to North America. The biggest anti-slavery freedom motion in North America was the Underground Railroad. At the beginning, you would often only see single men travelling through the Underground Railroad. But as the Underground Railroad became more noticed, families and large groups began travelling through. The slaves would follow what they called “lines” to get to safe houses, called stations. The people who helped the slaves along the way were called conductors, and the slaves were called packages. Once a field agent had gained the slaves' trust, he would take the slave to meet his conductor. The conductor
