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