
The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
Notable profiles
- Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott
- Henry "Box" Brown
- John Brown
- Levi Coffin
- Frederick Douglass
- Calvin Fairbank
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Thomas Garrett
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Samuel Green
- Josiah Bushnell Grinnell
- Josiah Henson
- James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok
- Isaac Hopper
- Roger Hooker Leavitt
- Rev. J.W. Loguen
- James Osgood
- Samuel J. May
- John Parker
- John Wesley Posey
- John Rankin
- Alexander Milton Ross
- David Ruggles
- Samuel Seawell
- William Still
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Charles Augustus Wheaton
External links
- Harriet Tubman: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)
- Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett, rev. ed.
- Ohio Underground Railroad
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- A "Guide to Freedom: Jockey statues marked Underground Railroad" article in newpaper in Loudon County, Virginia