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According to Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, why is Tubman trying to help people escape to Canada instead of the northern United States?

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Well because Canada is against slavery, considered and also they will have a better in Canada instead of Northern States because if captured consider contraband instead of being free.
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the south would send people to retrieve the slaves for bounties. 
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