The Underground Railroad was an important movement that took place during the 19th century, when the enslaved who sought ...

Edith Edmunds, a 99-year-old resident of Halifax County, is weaving history into her quilts, using her lifelong passion for sewing to educate others about the Underground Railroad. Edmunds ...

The Rippey Community Room was filled with veterans and their family members on Sunday afternoon April 6. Nine individuals ...

Courtesy Sanford Biggers According to African American oral tradition, people escaping slavery via the underground railroad relied on a code sewn into quilts, which were hung in windows or over ...

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 National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground Railroad after garnering outrage over its removal. In February, a photo and ...