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 ...

The Cultural Arts Center at 201 E. Spring St., New Albany, will host guest speaker Pam Peters, local author and historian, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... of free labor a Southern planter ...

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 ...