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The latest trinational news.Sunday, August 03, 2008
Plight of Underground America.
The Huntsville Item, August 3, 2008 - “‘Underground America’ began long before the issues surrounding illegal immigration surfaced as a dominant issue of the 21st century. The term is best illustrated by the movement involving the operations of clandestine escape networks that began in the 1500s, and was later connected with organized abolitionist activity in the 1800s. Neither an ‘underground’ nor a ‘railroad,’ the informal system emerged as a loosely constructed network of escape routes that originated in the South, intertwined throughout the North, and eventually ended in Canada. A runaway slave, like an illegal worker from Mexico and other parts of Central America, moved in secrecy and darkness along designated routes across the Ohio River by ‘Following the North Star.’” Read more.
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