Few photos of the Underground Railroad exist, which is why Jeanine Michna-Bales has spent months following the known routes North, photographing the homes, forests and caves where those escaping ...

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The Underground Railroad was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge from slave catchers on their way to a life out of bondage. There are many Underground Railroad sites ...

Even as stories about the horrors of oppression (“12 Years a Slave”) and the civil rights movement (“42,” “Selma,” “All the Way”) entered the mainstream, the Underground Railroad ...

In 1999, a book came out titled "Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad," written by Jaqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard. The authors claimed their work ...

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 ...

DECATUR – The room is cramped, dark and tiny, but in the days of the Underground Railroad, such a “safe” room could mean the difference between capture and freedom.

The Cozad-Bates House, in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood, opened to the public for tours in 2021, with four restored rooms that tell the stories of Northeast Ohio’s daring ...

Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, Mass., helping hundreds of other enslaved people.