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 ...

In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad. The Lewelling Quaker Museum sits on South Main Street. David and Cathy Helman, docents and ...

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 ...

Longwood keeps several important plant collections, including rare native orchids from Pennsylvania and nearby states. They ...

The National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground ...

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 ...