Underground Railroad: The Ever-Evolving Path to Freedom
Friday February 20, 2009
How many hundreds of heroes go unheralded from the days of the Underground Railroad? While we celebrate such important figures as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, numerous others were needed to make the operation of the "railroad" a success. The railroad was an amazing phenomenon that helps reveal the public sentiment in many areas against slavery and the willingness of people to risk everything to help their fellow man.
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We in modern times underestimate the oppressiveness of slavery and the consequent sense of urgency in those domestically serene times which had to precede a slave’s taking the risk. Yet the hope sprung eternal that, once North, a human being could fulfill the dream of dignity and autonomy that served as their incentive.