In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge ... many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways.

Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America ...

BELPRE, Ohio (WTAP)— For February, also known as Black History Month, we visited the Belpre Historical Society to see the Underground Railroad Exhibit. The Underground Railroad was essentially ...

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Area middle school students participated in a historic retelling of America’s 200-year struggle with slavery in recognition ...

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 ...