Boiling Springs is a charming, scenic village that often flies under the radar—unless you’re a hiker, drawn to its location ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network ... They followed rivers, hid in swamps and forest and always feared slave-hunters at their ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

What many people don’t know about is the significance of Bucks County’s connection to the Underground Railroad. Most are aware that in the 18th and 19th centuries as people escaped slavery in ...

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 ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...