the Underground Railroad

She was a Dutch woman in Amsterdam and she helped with the Underground Railroad and helped people hide and find their way out of Europe.

Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.

She returned to the South at least nineteen times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

Eventually three principal routes converged at the Coffin house, which came to be the Grand Central Terminal of the Underground Railroad.

The two met in Canada where she told him all she knew of the Underground Railroad in the East.

While many white Americans were a part of the Underground Railroad, free blacks gave the most assistance to runaway slaves.

Instead of a real train, the Underground Railroad was a series of hiding places, usually in houses of people who opposed slavery.

Backlash against the law helped fuel the abolitionist movement and increased participation on the Underground Railroad.

By night he was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, helping people slip by the slave hunters.

For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung.

Harriet Tubman became famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s.

Two weeks later, starving and exhausted, the family reached Cincinnati, where they made contact with members of the Underground Railroad.

The underground railroad was forged by the heroes who helped slaves to escape north to liberty.

Because of her work on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was called Moses.

Born into slavery, she escaped to the North by the Underground Railroad in 1849.

If you want to learn more about the people on the Underground Railroad, this would be a good book to read.

Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality