Meanwhile, pursuing his own line of inquiry, Larry Gara looked at the myths surrounding the Underground Railroad. Although the Underground Railroad was a reality, Gara said, “much of the material relating to it belongs in the realm of folklore rather than history.” It was not, he asserted, a well-organized transportation system offering multitudes of slaves safe passage to the “Promised Land of freedom.” Indeed, most runaways remained in the South, few were aided by abolitionists or anyone else, and many fled with a sense of terrible urgency.4
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