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 ...
They called in stage director Dennis Whitehead Darling who help them adapt “Sanctuary Road” from a choral work with soloists ...
William Still interviewed all the people he helped, a set of records later turned into the seminal book “The Underground Railroad Records,” published in 1872. Peter Still started telling a ...
The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...
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.
The Underground Railroad was a network of people all over working together to aid in freedom. Many people traveled through New York's Southern Tier on their way, and made stops in the Binghamton area.
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 ...