Tice Davids established this process for runaway slaves in the early 1800’s. It was a very treacherous process as conductors and station masters put their lives and their families’ lives in danger. The slaves also risked their lives by running away from their slave masters. Abraham Lincoln was a major part of the end of this process, and contributed to the cause to set slaves free. The Underground Railroad was an intricately planned operation involving conductors and station masters that freed many slaves and that involved the mastermind behind it all, Tice Davids, and, in the end, the President of the United States ended the ceaseless suffering of thousands of slaves.
In 1831 a slave by the name of Tice Davids fled from years of torment. …show more content…
Levi and Catharine Coffin were Quakers. Quakers were a religious culture or a Christian program. It is said that the Coffin’s saved over 2,000 slaves in their life time. The Coffin’s carried slaves in a wooden wagon that was made to find things underneath its items. The Coffin’s moved to Cincinnati and opened a wholesale warehouse that provided merchandise to free labor stores. After the Coffin’s passed their home was purchased by the state in 1967, and was restored for the public. Living a very successful life in setting trapped slaves free, the Coffin’s made history ( ). The most famous conductor we know is Ms. Harriet Ross Tubman. Harriet Tubman started out as a slave herself in Dorchester Maryland. Harriet worked in the fields from age six until she was involved in an accident involving a brick to her head ( ). Harriet married John Tubman, a free slave. John and Harriet were very happy, but considering Harriet was not a free slave she was concerned about being sold to another slave owner far away from her husband. When Harriet would speak to her husband about freedom he would tell her she was being foolish and that there was no use because she soon would be captured. The story