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Underground Railway

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  • proper noun Alternative form of Underground Railroad.

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Examples

  • I used to believe what I read in text books so it came as a surprise to me when documentary film makers in a town at another terminus point along the Underground Railway found the stones of the black cemetary built into farm walls and plowed under a potato field.

    German Election Day & I Pound History for Answers baggyk 2005

  • I was able to live at home with my mother and go down to Hounslow Barracks two or three times a week by the Underground Railway.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I was able to live at home with my mother and go down to Hounslow Barracks two or three times a week by the Underground Railway.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I was able to live at home with my mother and go down to Hounslow Barracks two or three times a week by the Underground Railway.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • My pet peeve here is that when the Underground Railway is studied, it is just superficially, as in aren't we great, but very little is known of the stories of those former slaves lives once they came here, nor is it mentioned that this was far from a promised land for them, I made eldest read "The Book of Negroes" for that reason to see beyond what is taught.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2011

  • Meanwhile, Underground Railway revives its puppety, family-friendly "How Do You Spell Hope?"

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

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