[Ads-l] Antedating of "Underground Railway"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Underground Railway (OED, (b), 1868)

1843 Liberator 23 June 1 / 2 (Newspapers.com)

>From the New-York Journal of Commerce. ... If another planter holds his negroes fast, but they are willing to try the hazards of the chase to Canada, Abolition jumps into the benevolent plan at once, sets up all night watching, arranges its underground rail-ways, and its above-ground carriages, and when the negro is safely landed in the cold dominions of Victoria, counts that benevolence has achieved a victory.

Fred Shapiro

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