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 ...

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 ...

The term railroad referred to the paths that African Americans traveled across the North-South border and eventually into Canada, where they would be outside the reach the federal Fugitive Slave Law.

In the time of The Underground Railroad’s setting, the destination of fugitive slaves was often Canada. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, runaways were assisted by men and women ...

The Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes ... with George Washington complaining that one of his runaway slaves had been assisted by “a society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.” ...

Legend has it that a lantern hung in the cupola told runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad that the house was a safe place. “We found 11 places in the house that were purposely designed to ...

When looking at the ABCs of Ross County the U stands for the Underground Railroad ... state for slaves during the time of ...

Giant leaps of faith brought an estimated 2,000 runaway slaves ... 33 abolitionist or Underground Railroad sites. The “Conductors” - whites, freed blacks, fellow slaves and Native Americans ...

PBS describes the Underground Railroad as “a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada” that “was not run by any single organization or person.

The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum, or the Burkle Estate ... with secret passages and trap doors that were used by runaway slaves attempting to flee north to freedom.