In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad.The Lewelling Quaker ...

The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more ...

Interested in the role his family played, Mock wrote a book called ‘The Last Station: Underground Railroad of Quaker Corner.’ It’s available to purchase at the Bedford County Historical Society.

The Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes ... one of his runaway slaves had been assisted by “a society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.” While this support system was ...

After turning west near Pickle Church, the original Agency Road branched to the south of the current route. A small town called East Grove was located on the southern route. It was founded in 1849 ...

At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved Black Americans via the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

An estimated 100,000 slaves sought freedom in the 1800s through a network of supporters and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad, according to the National Underground Railroad Freedom ...

In the North, Hicksite Quakers and other abolitionists provided some of the most organized support for the Underground Railroad. Particularly in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act, a night's ...