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Why is it difficult to measure how many enslaved people were liberated through the Underground Railroad?

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The Underground Railroad was a loose organization of abolitionists who kept no records to preserve secrecy.

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Determining how many slaves escaped using the Underground Railroad is difficult because no records were kept and the entire operation was very secretive
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