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secret sooiety whose meaithers were sworn to assist escaped slaves to run away to Ca~da where they would be free. ~Ihen a run~away slave crossed the Ohj~ Rivér he would be met by some one of this organization and taken where he oou].d remain in hiding by day, then by traveling by night, could reach another plaoe of concealment by morning, where he would be fed and hidden until darkness permitted him to roach the next haven. By this means many were suceessful in reaching freedom, though they were hunted by officers, armed with guns, and assisted by fierce dogs especially trained for this work.

	Negroes who were unruly, or were caught attempting to escape, were usually sold to planters in the far south where they could not hope to escape, and were forced to end their days in unremitting toil in the obtton and cane fileds, forever separated from relatives and friends.

	It was the barbarism practiced by cruel masters, so vividly portrayed in such books as ttUncle t s Cabin“ and s ongs like “Nellie Gray,“ that awakéned the nat ion‘ s e ons o lence and b rought ab out the bloody “C ivil War“

which resulted in the raoe being set free.
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Just before the war, George Davis, a mulatto, son of his monter and a

black servE.xrb girl, was in Cincinnati and was accosted by two white men who offered to use the good offices of the ‘~Underground Railroad“ to help hL‘n to get away to Canada, Being well treated, as a trusted servant of his white father and master, he did not avail himself of this opportunity to escape and stayed on as a slave until Freed by the war, after which he went to Ohio and settled and pro8pered until his death.

Another slavo, A.sberry Parker, did escape, and traveling by night. hiding by day, reached safety in Canada where he worked and saved until he became wealthy. After the war, when he could safely return to the United States, O he moved to Ironton, Ohio, where he made his home for the rest of his life.