In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

Video producer Tyler Huber takes a look at the impact of the Underground Railroad in Lancaster and beyond... Project Linus Blanketeers making blankets for needy [video] Video play button Behind ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - More than 100,000 escaped slaves made their way to freedom through the Underground Railroad. One of them was a man from Virginia who unshackled himself from the bondages of ...

Smith was referring to the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. “He describes the Underground Railroad and who in the town he thought was involved,” said Peterson. In the letter, Smith describes his ...

Harriet Tubman was the trailblazing leader of the Underground Railroad, which helped to free 70 enslaved people from the South to the North. Archaeologists with MDOT said the findings from an ...