If the south had problems with lack of infrastructure, why didn’t they just use the underground railroad?

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      1 year ago

      It also wasn’t a railroad…

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    1 year ago

    Freight makes more money than smuggling runaway slaves. Same reason there’s hardly any passenger service outside the Washington-Boston corridor.