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A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes overlaid with a drawing of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (left) and the Thomas Hoyne residence (right). A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes ...
To mark Juneteenth, the North Star Underground Railroad Museum, SUNY Plattsburgh and John Brown Lives! are hosting an art ...
This 1898 map shows Underground Railroad routes overlaid with a drawing of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (left) and the Thomas Hoyne residence (right).
The set of 20 stamps features freedom seekers and those who helped others escape, as well as a map illustrating the broad paths they took and an explanation of the Underground Railroad Network to ...
The “Underground Railroad” was a marvelously improvised, metaphorical construct run by courageous heroes, most of whom were black: “Much of what we call the Underground Railroad,” Blight ...
Visitors can find information about Underground Railroad routes in western Illinois, a memorial for Freedom Seeker Susan Richardson, as well as exhibits on the Lincoln-Douglas debate.
Forty feet underground, the city's once-bustling system of freight tunnels remains. Social media videos show adventurers and ...
An 1898 map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When he returned, after nearly an hour, he said, “It will take some time to look over these papers, and ...
The abolitionist movement began in the late 18th century as several antislavery societies formed in the North. At great risk to their own lives, abolitionists created the Underground Railroad, a ...
In the mid-1800s, the church became a station in the Underground Railroad, a secret network of travel routes and safe houses that guided slaves to free states. The ticket was bought by a lucky ...
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of travel routes and safe houses that guided slaves to free states in the 19th century. The task force is made up of state lawmakers and historians.
Underground Railroad routes in Iowa There were three “paths” that freedom seekers took through Iowa, said Iowa State Historical Society state curator Leo Landis.