The Underground Railroad was

a. a large international network of black and white people who smuggled slaves out of the South before the Civil War.
b. the first subway in New York City which was built by an African American.
c. the segregated, crowded and dingy railroad cars in which African Americans were required to sit.
d. the name given to the Union troops by slaves in the South.


a

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