The Underground Railroad is just a name of a series of secret network safe houses where Black runaway slaves could hide until they could be helped so that they could be free in Canada. ... She was fearless, even with at $40,000 bounty on her head she traveled deep into the United States to save slaves and bring them back to her safe house in St. ... The Eldon district in Saskatchewan was the place that housed the most Black families and many of them arrived in 1909. ...

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Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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