The Underground ... Railroad," after the then emerging steam railroads. The system even used terms used in railroading: the homes and businesses where fugitives would rest and eat were called ...

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 ...

William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario. Underground Railroad ...

One of the remaining pieces of the transcontinental railroad era that helped shape the Reno-Sparks region is slated for demolition in early 2025. A historic machine shop built in 1904 by Southern ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the ... If a Conductor was caught helping runaways in a Southern slave state, the consequences ...

The Ridge Historical Society, 10621 S. Seeley Ave., will host Dr. Larry McClellan, emeritus professor of sociology and ...

Slave catchers could, under law, transport fugitive slaves back to the southern plantations ... of abuse,” Wykes said. The Underground Railroad, and its stations in Northern Illinois, would ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network ... been illegal since the end of the 1700s. Southern slave-owners tried to discourage ...