Learn the history of the Fugitive Slave Act, the law that would change what slavery looked like and how the bill empowered an anti-slavery movement in Wisconsin. Wisconsin's Underground Railroad is ...

For decades in the 19th century, thousands of escaped slaves sought freedom using the so-called Underground Railroad, trying to reach northern states and Canada. In Natick, Edward Walcott was a well ...

CHURCH CREEK, MD ‒ Arnold Montgomery looks to the future by looking back through Harriett Tubman's eyes. On a recent visit to the rural area where the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor was ...

The George and Harriet Stevens, Roswell and George Valentine, Hiram and Celeste Walker, and Niles and Lydia Carpenter homes each shared secret rooms with the believed purpose of protecting slaves on ...

For thousands of runaway slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Underground Railroad represented freedom and a chance at a new life with 16 stops on that journey located in some taverns, churches ...

Joseph Farr, left, and Rev. Moses Dickson were among those who aided the Underground Railroad in Minnesota. Credit: Pioneer Press and Minnesota Historical Society Although long ignored in Underground ...

From behind the scissors in St. Paul, Moses Dickson helped African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad and nearly led a well-organized insurrection. An article called the Story of ...

Residents and guests at the Covenant Living Holmstad in Batavia learned about “Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad” during a presentation last month by Aurora ...