In a famous speech, American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King said that Canada was known as the North Star by African Americans seeking to escape slavery. Escaped slaves organized a secret network of safe houses and tunnels which allowed the runaway slaves to eventually find their way to Canada, which had outlawed slavery. Canada was the North Star because Canada was to the North. What was the name of this secret network?

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The name of the secret network used by escaped slaves to find their way to Canada is the Underground Railroad. Options A and B are not correct names of this network, and while option C sounds similar, it is not the historically accurate name for the network.

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