Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad ... the lifetimes of free labor a Southern ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists.

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, in the early days of the Underground Railroad many enslaved Black Canadians looked to escape the opposite direction, to the South — travelling to free ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

Even free men and women could be taken and sold into slavery in the south. Notable participants of the Underground Railroad included John Fairfield, the son of a slaveholding family who ...

The secret history of Chapel on the Green’s involvement with the Underground Railroad is coming to life with a free presentation in Yorkville at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26, 107 W. Center Street. The ...