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If the south had problems with lack of infrastructure, why didn't they just use the underground railroad?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wasn't that mostly in the North?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It also wasn't a railroad....

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Freight makes more money than smuggling runaway slaves. Same reason there's hardly any passenger service outside the Washington-Boston corridor.

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