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A state’s population determines how many members it sends to the House of Representatives, which helps write the country’s laws. Since slaves could not vote, Northerners thought they should not count in the formula for setting the number of representatives. The North did not want slaves to give Southern states a larger share of the representatives in the House. Some Southern states, however, had a much larger percentage of slaves than white residents. Those states wanted slaves counted to make sure that the states had as many representatives as Northern states.
Pennsylvania was a free state that bordered the slave states of Maryland and Virginia and was the home of many abolitionist Quakers. : NAMING THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD For years, individual blacks and whites on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line had been helping fugitives escape from slavery. ) By 1831, a loose system was already linking the rescuers together in some areas, such as the Ohio River valley. However, the name Underground Railroad still did not exist. Several different stories suggest how the railroad received its name.
Abolitionists suggested that the railroad was a highly developed, formal network. They hoped to win support by showing Americans the dangers slaves risked when they ran for their freedom. Some freed slaves spoke at public meetings, describing their lives as slaves and their journey north. Abolitionists hoped that these stories would convince other The Railroad Gains Steam · 51 Northerners to support the end of slavery. At one meeting in Ohio, an entire fugitive family addressed the audience. R.