Facts about The Underground Railroad

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   Published in 2016, Whitehead's novel reimagines the Underground Railroad as a literal network of trains and tunnels running beneath the American South.

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   Levi Coffin, a Quaker abolitionist from Indiana, sheltered over 2,000 freedom seekers and became known as the 'President of the Underground Railroad.

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   Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 2016.

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   Harriet Tubman led approximately 70 enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad between 1849 and 1860 without ever losing a passenger.

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   In the 1850s, approximately 100,000 enslaved people escaped via the Underground Railroad to Canada and northern states seeking freedom.

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