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Information about the Underground Railroad was often shared by
word of mouth.

terminals. Station operators were called station masters.

Routes to safety were called lines.

Since many enslaved people were not able to learn

how to read and write, they had to find other ways to talk

to one another about the railroad. One of the ways they

did this was through songs called spirituals. The songs

used references to people and places in stories from the

Bible as codes to give instructions on how to escape or

where to meet.

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