The Role Of The Underground Railroad In Neal Shusterman's Unwind

The Underground Railroad is an important topic in Neal Shusterman’s Unwind. In the book, the main characters are transported through a series of safe houses to get to their final destination where they cannot be unwound. This process is very much like the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves in the United States of America in the 1800s. An Underground Railroad is not actually underground nor a railroad. It was named this because it worked similarly to the way railroads do. This process is most popularly known for the network of people, safe houses, and routes that helped escaped slaves in the South travel to the North to be free in the 1800s when slavery was at its most popular in the United States.

In the time leading up to the Civil War, slavery was becoming very popular

For example, without it, most slaves would not have escaped and there might even still be slavery. The Underground Railroad was a large component of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. If it had not been for the onslaught of runaway slaves, much of the North would not have known how instilled slavery really was in the South. Moreover, if it were not for the freed slaves that told Harriet Beecher Stowe their stories, a lot of the details about how slaves really lived would not have been revealed to the North and entire country. After the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published as a series in an anti-slavery newspaper, it was published as a book, over three hundred thousand copies of which were sold in the United States. The Underground Railroad was very revealing to the North states about slavery in the South. If any of these were different, the Civil War could have ended very different, the end of slavery in the south might have been later than it was, which would push back many of the advancements in Civil Rights that were made in the next