An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

Ships conjure the romance of sailing the seven seas ... Vitesse stand out from other craft of its type is its wild, black-and-white, First World War-style dazzle camouflage scheme.

A social media video from Sail Baltimore from 2016 shows the white-hulled ship moving through the harbor with a large Mexican flag flying from the stern and a crowd of onlookers waving to the crew ...

An extraordinary new sailing ship was supposed to be a replica of a British warship that his flotilla captured. But when the Canadian group behind the venture ran out of money, enthusiasts in ...

where he was imprisoned in 1844 for attempting to sail seven fugitive slaves to ... better-known web of clandestine workers, both black and white, male and female, who facilitated the overland ...