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How did the Northerners and Southerners use the Underground Railroad to promote their views?

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The abolitionists used the Underground Railroad as a propaganda device to dramatize the evils of slavery; Southern slaveholders publicized it to illustrate Northern infidelity to the fugitive slave laws .

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