The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a system that moved fugitive slaves to the North or Canada. The Underground Railroad was just another building block for the South as they were going to secede. The Underground Railroad and the people who were involved in it played a big role the beginning of the Civil War.
Ever since the beginning of slavery in America there has been certain abolitionist that have tried to free slaves. When George Washington was president there are reports that some of his slaves escaped and freed by Quakers. This Underground Railroad wasn't a completely new phenomenon at the time, things like this have been going on forever. The Quakers were believed to have started the famous Underground Railroad. A man named Levi Coffin, known as the king of the Underground Railroad, was believed to freed close to 3,000 slaves. When the Underground Railroad first started people saw sparks arise but they did not know that this would lead to something like a Civil War.
Abolitionist who worked the Underground Railroad wanted to spread the anti-slavery movement across America so their way of doing it was through the Underground Railroad. People all throughout the network would talk about it and it would eventually spread to everywhere orally. Unfortunately the word on abolishing slavery and the Underground Railroad got to the slave owners of the already frustrated South.
With the secession of the South the Civil War was in the near future. No one can really blame the whole cause of the Civil War on the Underground Railroad but it played a big role. The Civil War was a fight over the South wanting slavery and the North wanting to abolish it. Some may say the Civil War was started because South the was being stubborn but, at the end of the day we do not know why it all started. All I know our country would not be the same strong country it is without it.
