The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more ...

Have you ever visited the John Brown Monument in Akron? Here is an opportunity. The Summit County Historical Society, the ...

Soon after we located at Newport, I found that we were on a line of the U.G.R.R. [Underground Railroad ... as it became more widely known on different routes that the slaves fleeing from bondage ...