Context: The Underground Railroad was a secret network of routes, safe houses and people who aided Black ... many had become ...

Jacob Morris, the head of the Harlem Historical Society, has a vision for Lower Manhattan: He wants to establish a trail linking sites associated with the Underground Railroad, the 19th-century ...

The National Park Service reversed controversial edits to a webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad she ...

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 ... life. To escape the deep South and ...

The original introduction read as follows: "The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...