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.

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 ...

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” ...

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 ...