<span>It was not an actual railroad. It was a network of houses and buildings that were used to help slaves escape from the South to freedom in the Northern states or Canada.</span>
Answer
Basically the pawnbrokers offered secured loans to individuals against personal property.
Explanation
Pawnbrokers are people being an individual or a business or an organisation who offers money as loans to people which is secured with an item or personal property is used as a collateral. whenever you pawn a property or an item it means that you are you are using it as a collatel. And the pawnbroker will agree to give you cash and hold your item until the time you will pay back as per the agreement.
Farm life as more behind in technology while cities were more fast-paced, had more jobs and used more technology.
