The image of a supplicant woman slave became the emblem for the women's antislavery movement. Philadelphia was a stop on the Underground Railroad leading fugitive slaves North, and many decided to ...

In a day when skin color differentiated the masters from the slaves, many people took a chance by putting their lives in the hands of strangers, traveling hundreds of miles north through the ...

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 ...

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” ...