In his episodic debut, Academy Award™ winner Barry Jenkins tackles a topical and electrifying subject that speaks directly to this in the new Amazon Original series The Underground Railroad on ...

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 ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

Fortunately, in addition to the dangers from slave catchers and the elements, our heros also have the Underground Railroad, the clandestine network of caring people, like Harriet Tubman ...

Eventually, Northern abolitionists established a series of networks – mostly ... “Brentwood had an Underground Railroad site – unfortunately, it’s gone – the Point View Hotel.

A new U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring Upper Darby Quaker Thomas Garrett for his work in the Underground Railroad was ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...