24 May 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by
freedom seekers to escape to the
abolitionist Northern United States and
Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans and
African Americans escaped from slavery as early as the 16th century, and many of their escapes were unaided; however, a network of safe houses generally known as the Underground Railroad began to organize in the 1780s among
Abolitionist Societies in the
North. It ran north and grew steadily until the
Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 by President
Abraham Lincoln. The escapees sought primarily to escape into
Slave states and free states”>free states, and potentially from there to Canada.
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24 February 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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The Big Bend region of
Florida is an informal region of the state. Different definitions of the region include counties stretching across northern Florida from the
Apalachicola River to the
St. Johns River. The Big Bend Coast, however, is the marshy coast without
barrier islands that extends along the
Gulf of Mexico coast of Florida from the
Ocklockonee River (
Wakulla County) to
Anclote Key (
Pasco County).
Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism marketing corporation, uses varying definitions of the region, including just four counties,
Jefferson,
Taylor,
Dixie and
Levy counties, in one definition, and 12 counties, including Levy, Dixie,
Gilchrist,
Lafayette,
Suwannee,
Columbia,
Hamilton,
Baker,
Union,
Bradford,
Clay, and
Putnam counties, in another. The
Big Bend Scenic Byway is a marked route through
Franklin,
Leon, and
Wakulla counties.
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