The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, ... The fugitives would also travel by train and boat ...

A historic gentleman’s farm in Bedford Hills, NY, with roots stretching back to the 18th century — and a history that includes politicians, physicians and television pioneers — has come to market for ...

The Underground Railroad was a secret abolitionist movement that aided over 100,000 enslaved African ... Racine area residents and visitors can learn more in the This Train Is Bound For Glory ...

The post Underground Railroad stamps honor those who helped people who were enslaved reach freedom ... “I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger,” Tubman once said while ...

The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force, created through a bill last year, ... I've been doing this for 30 years. I want to get on this train." On Friday and Saturday, ...

Soon, next year we are told, the heretofore hidden history of Illinois’ Underground Railroad will begin to be assembled, documented, recorded and made public. And it only took 200 years. Soon ...

Most often this meant a train ticket. ... “The Underground Railroad cause is increasing,” boasted Still in an 1856 newspaper article, “they cannot stop the cars.” ...

An 'educational Underground Railroad’ for Black history. ... Donaldson said it’s important to train others how to teach history, including hosting workshops and providing critical resources.

An 1844 article from the Western Citizen, an abolitionist newspaper in Chicago, imagines the Underground Railroad as an actual train, the Liberty Line.

Glenwood has opened a monument to the Underground Railroad at a site used in the national freedom network in their village. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South ...

The East Main Street building served as a station on the Underground Railroad. “Those people standing there in shackles and chains could see the steeple of this church and think, if I can just ...

Underground Railroad conductors continued to approach Stevenson, encouraging him to leave his enslaver and seek freedom. Finally, one told him to board a different boat than his companion, and ...