While many believe that the stories told about the songs of the Underground Railroad are true, there are also many skeptics. Some claim that songs of the Underground Railroad is an urban legend dating from the later 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.There is evidence, however, that the Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman used at least two songs. Sarah Bradford’s biography of Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, published in 1869, quotes Tubman as saying that she used “Go Down Moses” as one of two code songs to communicate with fugitive enslaved people escaping from Maryland.
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