Question

The Underground Railroad was a secret system that was run by
enslaved workers in fields and in cities.
plantation owners and overseers in the South.
“maroon communities” living in the wilderness.
free African Americans and abolitionists in the North.

Answer 1

The Underground Railroad was primarily a secret system run by free African Americans and abolitionists in the North, along with sympathetic individuals in the South. It provided a network of safe houses and routes for enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada. While other groups may have been involved in various ways, the core operators and supporters of the Underground Railroad were indeed free African Americans and those committed to abolitionist causes.