In 1990, Congress authorized the National Park Service to conduct a study of the Underground Railroad, its routes and operations in order to preserve and interpret this aspect of United States history. This study includes a general overview of the Undergr
Escaping slaves had to travel many hundreds of miles to reach freedom, during this time they depended upon abolitionists and sympathizers to give them shelter and assistance. This secret network of people and places is known as the "Underground Railr
The Underground Railroad was a network of routes that slaves used to escape to the free states which included Ohio, Indiana, and Philadelphia. It was used in the mid 1800's. It also led slaves into Canada.
Iowa had many stations on the underground railroad, an organization of men and women, many of them Quakers, who actively assisted runaway slaves to reach Canada and freedom.
-- Kentucky's place on the Underground Railroad is nearly as much of a historical secret today as the clandestine efforts to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom were in the mid-1800s.
From July 30th through August 6th, 1999, a delegation of educators from Southern California retraced the treacherous trails followed by fugitive slaves seeking freedom in Canada in the years before the Civil War.
