Bucks County’s stops on the Railroad played an important part in the runaway slaves’ journey northward to freedom, said ...
The structure predates both the city of Mitchellville and the Civil War and was built by the town’s founder, Thomas Mitchell.
A freshly painted mural on the side of the brick building at 625 S. Delhi St. shows a man seated at a desk, pen in hand as he records information. Standing next to him is a woman with a stethoscope ...
A National Park Service web page on the Underground Railroad was temporarily edited to remove references to abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman, with the exception of an image of a stamp with ...
Ithaca’s St. James AME Zion Church, constructed between 1833 and 1836, served a crucial role in the Underground Railroad. As the city’s primary station, the church hosted abolitionist leaders Harriet ...
Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating a significant step toward the end of slavery in the United States, marks a delayed freedom. It honors the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in ...
These inns feature traces of the routes of runaway slaves. Slaves would hide on the third floor of the Fairfield Inn after crawling through openings and trap doors. — -- Just in time for Black ...
As Black History Month approaches, the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State is offering organizations across New ...
B Street Theatre will present Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, a Family Series production that dramatizes the ...
BROOKLYN -- Activists are fighting to save a home in Brooklyn, believed to be a part of the Underground Railroad. Half a block from a gym, a few doors down from a new hotel and next to a brewpub lies ...