Interesting Description

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The National Park Service describes the Underground Railroad thusly:

the underground railroad is classified by the National Park Service as, “[a] story [unlike] nothing else in American History: a secret enterprise that today is famous, an association that many claim but few can document, an illegal activity now regarded as noble, a network that was neither underground nor a railroad, yet a system that operated not with force or high finance but through the committed and often spontaneous acts of courage and kindness of individuals unknown to each other.”