This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry David Thoreau. The poem tells the story of a young man named Thoreau, who was orphaned and brought up by his grandparents in a small town in Maine. His grandfather, Thoreau's father, was the founder of the Underground Railroad, which ran from Boston to New York City. The Underground Railroad was the first railroad in the United States, and it ran from the mid-1600s to the early 1900s. It was a very important part of the nation's history, and Thoreau wrote about it in his famous poem, "Walden and the Pilgrim's Progress." In the poem, Thoreau describes his grandfather as a "gentleman," a man who loved his family, his home, his country, and his friends. He was a good man, but he