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== [[Literature]] ==
* The original ''Underground Railroad'' led from the United States and slavery to Canada (or other British and foreign territories) and freedom. In much of its heyday, which started with the British Empire's abolition of slavery in 1843 and largely ended with the US [[Civil War]] in 1861, freedom seekers who'd reached abolitionist Northern states were still not safe as they risked abduction and recapture by slave catchers. Only a few brave souls like [[Harriet Tubman]] risked going behind the lines to transport slaves from southern border states; the bulk of the infrastructure served the onward travel of those already in free states but still at risk of recapture. Books and newspapers were the most effective (or, at least, most lasting) media for abolitionists to advance their beliefs
** ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' by Harriet Beecher Stowe was an influential contemporary work in the cause against slavery, as was [[Mark Twain|Samuel Clemens']] ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''.
** ''The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history'' (1898) by [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49038 Wilbur Henry Siebert] (1866-1961) was an extensive description of the Underground Railroad across the US northeast, written a few decades after it was all over.
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** Later on, other operations develop to help {{spoiler|Narn civilians}} escape captivity after their star nation falls under a brutal occupation by {{spoiler|The Centauri Republic.}} One of the notables in this movement is {{spoiler|Vir Cotto, using his credentials as Londo's aide and later Ambassador to Minbar}} under the name "Abrahamo Lincolni".
** And the Telepath Underground Railroad is used again later on as {{spoiler|a recruiting network for telepaths to help the [[The Alliance|Army of Light]] fight the Shadows.}}
* In ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' and ''[[Serenity]]'', Simon was helped in his rescue of his sister from a government lab by some unspecified co-conspirators who apparently are these.
* In ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', the title characters and the French Resistance helped escaping Allied P.O.W.s reach England.
* ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'': Investigating a murder attributed to the slave of a distant relative, Mrs. Fletcher found that the victim was a "Station Master" on the Underground Railroad, and was murdered by his father-in-law.
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* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' supplement ''Aztlan''. The Aztlan Freedom League helps refugees from Aztlan escape to the Confederated American States.
* Fantasy Games Unlimited's ''Psi World'' adventure ''Underground Railroad''. The Free State operates, with the aid of a psionic underground in the Confederacy, a series of escape routes for psis who wish to get out of the repressive police state of the Confederacy.
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has a few, especially in Calimshan. And (less often) [https://web.archive.org/web/20161101074717/http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=fr
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