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was ralph waldo emerson a conductor on the underground rail road?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I found a website which says, specifically, that Henri David Thoreau, a contemporary of Emerson's, was "actively" involved in the Underground Railroad (which of course was not a physical railroad, but a secret network of contacts designed to help slaves move north to freedom.
http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/emerson.asp
►The observant and humorous accounts of various journeys he made in this period were published posthumously in Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape Cod (1865), and A Yankee in Canada (1866). He became a dedicated abolitionist and actively helped speed fleeing slaves north on the Underground Railroad while lecturing and writing against slavery....◄
- staisilLv 71 decade ago
Yes, his family home was a stop. See below.
Source(s): http://www.calliope.org/thoreau/thurro/thurro1.htm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transcendentalist