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 ...

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 ...

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 ...