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 ...

Still, who was born in Lawnside, a community of free Blacks who first settled on land donated by Quakers in neighboring Haddonfield in the late 1790s, published the book, The Underground Railroad ...

The nonprofit Susquehanna National Heritage Area bought the Mifflin House in Wrightsville in 2023 and has big plans for the site, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

William Still, an abolitionist from Philadelphia, is referred to as the “Father of the Underground Railroad" after he helped hundreds of enslaved people escape. Still published a book in 1872 ...

Iowa played a vital role in the Underground Railroad, serving as a crucial sanctuary for enslaved people seeking freedom from the oppressive South. The state’s geography, with its rivers and wooded ...

The Underground Railroad is among the most remarkable escape stories in history, a fundamental lesson for all Americans. We revere figures like Harriet Tubman, who risked her repeatedly to lead the ...

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. African American men and women of all ages ...