A taskforce of state legislators and historians will ask the General Assembly to create the Illinois Freedom Trails ...

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 ...

AUSTINTOWN — If you live anywhere in the Mahoning Valley, chances are great that you’re at or very near a route that was once part of the Underground Railroad. “After 1850, Canada becomes ...

The Underground Railroad was a series of secret ... head towards the free states in the north or to the safety of Canada. The Railroad was most active between 1810 and the commencement of the ...

The Underground Railroad was not a series of underground tunnels ... these tunnels are believed to be a vessel for those fleeing further north, often to Canada. They are considerably smaller than they ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and passageways that helped secretly transport enslaved people to free states in the North and Canada in the 1800s. It was mostly set up and ...

Tennessee and other slave states went on to Canada. Many settled in the Dayton area and other parts of the Ohio. Springboro for example is thought to have more Underground Railroad depots in and ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

The British Empire, of which Canada was a part, abolished slavery throughout its territories in 1833. Underground Railroad activity flourished in cities such as Rochester and Buffalo which were ...