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

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 ...

Wedding guests who witnessed the incident recall seeing people “dangling” from the sails of the ship while “wearing harnesses” after colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge. “[The ship] set ...

A Mexican navy sailing ship on a global goodwill tour struck the ... The vessel, which was flying a giant green, white and red Mexican flag, then drifted toward the edge of the river as onlookers ...

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 ...