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The Underground Railroad Escape to Freedom Board Game Black Heritage Series BRAND NEW SEALED FREE SHIPPING Navigate your way throughout the United States and learn about the "Safe Houses" throughout the United States. The safe houses provided runaway slaves with food and shelter. Safe houses protected slaves from the slave catchers who were trying keep them from achieving freedom. Traveling along the Underground Railroad to freedom took weeks, if not months and years, to accomplish. The slaves who were able to escape often only traveled at night, and sometimes over treacherous terrain, rivers, mountains and in wet, cold weather, or brutal heat. Many times they walked toward the next safe house, which in some cases could be 10-20 miles away.