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 ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors ... She promptly pulled out a book and feigned reading it. The ploy was enough to fool the men.

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 ...

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 ...

William Still, an abolitionist from Philadelphia, is referred to as the “Father of the Underground Railroad" after he helped hundreds of enslaved people escape. Still published a book in 1872 ...