the Underground Railroad used everything from songs to scattered black-eyed peas to share secret codes. Something as simple ...

The son of 19th Century abolitionist John Rankin, whose family home in Ripley, Ohio, was a first stop on the Underground ...

September is International Underground Railroad Month, chosen because both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass escaped from ...

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Churchill places the Underground Railroad in the context of a geography of violence, a shifting landscape in which clashing norms of violence shaped the activities of slave catchers and the fugitives ...

who wrote “The Underground Railroad” in 1872. Ahmad, a native of Middletown who played basketball at Wright State University, has assembled a extensive collection of maps, news clipping and ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a ... about 10 Parks You ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center shares stories of freedom’s heroes from the era of the Underground Railroad to modern day. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River ...

Gov. Wes Moore proclaimed September 2024 as the sixth annual International Underground Railroad Month in Maryland.

Jay said that the reason he was attracted to the property was not only its location along the river in downtown Harrisburg but also that it’s believed to be part of the Underground Railroad. “As a ...

Discover the music of the Underground Railroad at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Limited tickets available ...