Follow the path from Georgia to Philadelphia and explore the myriad ways enslaved individuals found their way to freedom using places of refuge that were havens for the Freedom Seekers.

Still was the most important figure in this critical portion of the Underground Railroad, during the period when the network ... When Sydney fled a second time, she made the heartbreaking decision ...

Nevertheless, enslaved people from the South did travel north to Chicago and its suburbs during this period seeking ... that all the time, people are identifying Underground Railroad sites that ...

or that an opportune time to flee was at hand. Scholars such as Larry Gara in his book The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad and Blight, among others, have worked diligently ...

“We could talk about abolition, Underground Railroad, race relations, gender… For five hours alone, just on Oberlin through this time period,” she said. “The town wasn’t ...

According to the state, "[Fountain] was described in period accounts as a fearless and bold Underground Railroad pilot, in a time when the penalties for white persons assisting freedom-seekers ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of churches, safe houses and community centers that led thousands of people escaping slavery to freedom. Northern states like Pennsylvania played a major ...

But we also now know that this time period he was in Minnesota. And so if this story about the national slave revolt and his activities in the Underground Railroad are to be agreed upon ...

When RJ Cyler first started work on "Freedom's Path," his new Underground Railroad film that opens ... "We know the big figures of this period," Smith said. "This is about the unknowns who played ...

As I read through these extraordinary letters, a rare real-time account of escapes and a lost masterpiece of satire, I came across the first use of “underground railroad” from the Aug. 10 ...