History textbooks and popular media generally depict the Underground Railroad as an arduous overland journey, one that would stretch for days until the right covered wagon allowed the enslaved to ...

"And the Underground Railroad station was there, and on Howell's whole 45 acres, from 1811 to 1836." The routes to Canada from Ford Station Emma Howell's land provided easy access to Lake Erie.

In Ohio, the Underground Railroad routes scattered throughout the state like a spider web. One of the major routes that ran through Central Ohio, including Columbus, followed a path that is today ...

"And the Underground Railroad station was there, and on Howell's whole 45 acres, from 1811 to 1836." The routes to Canada from Ford Station Emma Howell's land provided easy access to Lake Erie.

Many of these paths are not part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, due to the necessary secrecy of these routes, and neither is the Appalachian Trail.

It wasn’t an easy journey. They received help by staying at safe houses established by freed slaves and abolitionists, a system that became known as the Underground Railroad, but others also ...

Historians believe the Coffins helped about 2,000 African-Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad over 20 years, providing them with food, clothes, and shelter. She died on May 22 ...

A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes overlaid with a drawing of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (left) and the Thomas Hoyne residence (right). A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes ...

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 ...

The real Underground Railroad — a network of safe houses and secret routes that assisted runaway enslaved people on their journeys to freedom in the North — has a mysterious history in Central ...

Despite popular depictions of the Underground Railroad, escaping over land was almost impossible in the Deep South. So thousands of enslaved people found allies on the water.