National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will open on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, in the summer of 2004. A $1 10-million facility , the Freedom Center will feature three pavilions, celebrating courage, cooperation and perseverance. The story of freedom is woven through the heroic legacy of the Underground Railroad and the American struggle to abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people.

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The Underground Railroad

a secret system used in the US before the Civil War for. helping thousands of slaves to escape to the free northern states or Canada. The slaves were called “passengers”, the

people who helped them were “conductors”, and the slaves hid in “stations”(safe houses) along the way.