How Was the Underground Railroad Advertised?

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living in northern states because the bounty hunters and some others would take them to be enslaved.
The Underground Railroad also known as the freedom or gospel trail, is believed to have been in existence as early as 1837; one source states; “the story of the Underground Railroad had its beginnings in Africa, when the Portuguese captured the first slaves in the 1400s. Only five percent were delivered to British North America and to what later became the United States of America. (Owen)
People involved with the Underground Railroad developed their own terminology; such as conductors which were the people who guided the slaves from place to place. Safe houses or Stations, is where they could safely find protection, food, or a place to sleep. Station masters hid fugitive slaves in their homes, barns, under their floors or churches. Once they found a safe city in the north, some were hidden in wagons, in potato sacks and hidden under vegetables for the next leg of their journey, ...

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symbols and memory devices to describe and map out an escape route. There were ten different designs and ten different quilts, with a "specific pattern of knots" used in the code. 'The monkey wrench,' was a signal for the would-be escapes" to gather the tools they would need for their escape. "Tumbling blocks or tumbling boxes told them it was time to go. Each quilt was possibly left out until all those who were making the trip could finish the necessary preparations. Then another quilt in the sequence was hung, followed by another, until all ten had been displayed.
The 18th Century Quakers, members of the Religious Society of Friends, were the first organized abolitionists, ...

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