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.

In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad.The Lewelling Quaker ...

Harriet Tubman was the trailblazing leader of the Underground Railroad, which helped to free 70 enslaved people from the South to the North. Archaeologists with MDOT said the findings from an ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of people all over working together to aid in freedom. Many people traveled through New York's Southern Tier on their way, and made stops in the Binghamton area.

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