Which statement accurately describes the Underground Railroad? A. It relied on safe houses run by northern whites and blacks to
move slaves to Canada. B. It guided slave hunters with captured runaway slaves on their return voyage. C. It arranged for slaves to visit friends and relatives who lived on different plantations. D. It allowed abolitionists to travel south secretly and observe slave conditions.
"A. It relied on safe houses run by northern whites and blacks to move slaves to Canada" is correct, although it should be noted that there were other destinations as well.
The underground railway was a clandestine network organized in the nineteenth century in the United States and Canada to help African-American slaves escape from the southern plantations to free states or Canada. The name of "Underground Railroad" comes from the fact that its members used railway terms in a metaphorical way to refer to their activities.
A system of manufacturing based upon work done at home on materials supplied by merchant employers - contrasted with factory system - compare cottage industry
