Safe+Houses

media type="custom" key="764663" Image: http://www.ourvictorianhouse.com/FrontPorch.htm __ Safe Houses __ The Underground Railroad was a system that helped runaway slaves escape to the North to be free. People that helped slaves on their journey to the North were called abolitionists. They owned houses which were called safe houses where they hid slaves in secret places when slavenappers came. In safe houses slaves got the food and the shelter they needed to survive until they left to go to the next safe house when the coast was clear. Abolitionists also helped slaves with directions to the next safe house. One way slaves knew houses along the way were safe houses is because some of them had lanterns hanging on the outside or quilts hanging on the outside.