"If the escaped slaves were so welcome in the north, why did the underground run all the way to Canada?"

Fact=Becuase due to the Fugitive Slave Act southern slave owners could come into northern states and take back their "property". They couldn't do that in Canada

Fact=When you were a welder you got paid wages, you or your family could not be sold out of state.

Fact=bad as they were, black codes lasted a shorter time than Jim Crow in the South.

Fact=my beautiful African-American wife's family fought to set slaves free not own them.

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