Underground Railroad

network of secret routes & safehouses in 19th-century U.S. used by slaves to find freedom
Organization resistance_movement Q868393
Underground Railroad
https://lccn.loc.gov/68003375 Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961. The underground railroad from slavery to freedom. With an introd. by Albert Bushnell Hart. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1968 [c1898] xx · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Underground Railroad

Summary

Underground Railroad is a resistance movement[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of resistance_movement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,852 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Underground Railroad is in the country of United States[3].
  • Underground Railroad's instance of is recorded as resistance movement[4].
  • Underground Railroad's instance of is recorded as road network[5].
  • Underground Railroad is operated by National Park Service[6].
  • railway is named after Underground Railroad[7].
  • Underground Railroad's Commons category is recorded as Underground Railroad[8].
  • Underground Railroad comprises Burkle Estate[9].
  • Underground Railroad began on 1800[10].
  • Underground Railroad ended on 1863[11].
  • Underground Railroad's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Underground Railroad[12].
  • Underground Railroad's political ideology is recorded as abolitionism[13].
  • Underground Railroad's facet of is recorded as slavery in the United States[14].
  • Underground Railroad's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[15].
  • Underground Railroad's has characteristic is recorded as confidentiality[16].
  • Underground Railroad's different from is recorded as The Underground Railroad[17].
  • Underground Railroad's has part is recorded as safe house[18].
  • Underground Railroad's has part is recorded as asylum seeker[19].
  • Underground Railroad's has part is recorded as conductor[20].
  • Underground Railroad's significant person is recorded as Levi Coffin[21].
  • Underground Railroad's significant person is recorded as Thomas Garrett[22].
  • Underground Railroad's significant person is recorded as Harriet Tubman[23].
  • Underground Railroad's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[24].

Body

Operations

Underground Railroad is operated by National Park Service[6].

Why It Matters

Underground Railroad ranks in the top 3% of resistance_movement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,852 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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