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Clandestine network of abolitionists who, often at great personal peril, housed and transported escaped American slaves in their journey toward freedom in the Northern states or Canada.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Brown	Activist	9-May-1800	2-Dec-1859	Led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Levi Coffin	Activist	28-Oct-1798	16-Sep-1877	Helped thousands of slaves to freedom
Martin R. Delany	Activist	6-May-1812	24-Jan-1885	Black nationalist
Frederick Douglass	Activist	Feb-1817	20-Feb-1895	Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer
Moses Farmer	Inventor	9-Feb-1820	25-May-1893	Invented the fire alarm, electric trolley
Thomas Garrett	Activist	21-Aug-1789	25-Jan-1871	Underground Railroad
Frances E. W. Harper	Poet	24-Sep-1825	22-Feb-1911	Abolitionist, temperance activist
J. Miller McKim	Activist	14-Nov-1810	13-Jun-1874	Abolitionist and advocate for freed slaves' rights
Lucretia Mott	Activist	3-Jan-1793	11-Nov-1880	Women's rights and anti-slavery advocate
Harriet Forten Purvis	Activist	1810	11-Jun-1875	African-American abolitionist
Robert Purvis	Activist	4-Aug-1810	15-Apr-1898	"President" of the Underground Railroad
William Henry Seward	Politician	16-May-1801	10-Oct-1872	Mastermind behind Seward's Folly
Gerrit Smith	Activist	6-Mar-1797	28-Dec-1874	Anti-slavery and temperance reformer
William Still	Activist	7-Oct-1819	14-Jul-1902	Father of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman	Activist	c. 1821	10-Mar-1913	Underground Railroad
Thomas B. Welch	Business	31-Dec-1825	29-Dec-1903	Grape juice magnate

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