The Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes and safe houses that, by one estimation ... free states in the north or to the safety of Canada. The Railroad was most active between ...

William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario. Underground Railroad ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run ... terms used in railroading: the homes and businesses where fugitives ...

A dig at the site of the the once-renowned Cataract House Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York is no exception. In Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, host Anthony Morgan follows an excavation ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network ... Canada was viewed as a safe haven, where a black person could be free.