Until recently, few books have penetrated the character and motives of the estimated 3,000 men and women who, as they aided fugitives and led them to safety, constituted the Underground Railroad.

Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...

In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad. The Lewelling Quaker Museum sits on South Main Street. David and Cathy Helman, docents and ...

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 ...