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Slavery Slavery was a cruel thing that started very early in the United States. It was a time that brought slaves from Africa to Southern US, to work for their masters on plantations or fields. Slavery was very unpleasant, and many slaves wished it would end, but they knew nothing could end it. It went on for hundreds of years, without attempts to end it, until a slave escaped to freedom. Many slaves heard about it, telling other slaves about a slave escaping through an ‘underground railroad’. This was one of many abolition movements, and one of the strongest, which freed about 4,000 slaves a year. The Underground Railroad was not actually underground, but was