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The Underground Railroad consisted of meeting points, secret routes, transportation, and safe houses, and assistance provided by abolitionist sympathizers.
Individuals were often organized in small, independent groups ; this helped to maintain secrecy because individuals knew some connecting " stations " along the route but knew few details of their immediate area.
" Conductors " on the railroad came from various backgrounds and included free-born blacks, white abolitionists, former slaves ( either escaped or manumitted ), and Native Americans.
Churches also often played a role, especially the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), Congregationalists, Wesleyans, and Reformed Presbyterians as well as certain sects of mainstream denominations such as branches of the Methodist church and American Baptists.
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