But Tubman was able to create a network of stations and operators helped to lead escaped slaves North to freedom. One of the songs of the Underground Railroad was “Wade in the Water”.

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and became a conductor of the Underground Railroad, leading around 13 missions to free over 70 ...

The Underground Railroad was an informal set ... Other codes used by anti-slavery sympathizers were incorporated into song and dance. The Berea Historical Society is researching how the city ...

It began with a piano recital. One Friday afternoon, I attended a noonday concert inside the sanctuary of St. Luke and St.

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

“For many enslaved African-Americans, the Underground Railroad was their only hope to escape the brutality of slavery,” said USPS Board of Governors member Ronald A. Stroman. USPS has unveiled ...

William Still, who was known throughout the country as "Father of the Underground Railroad" and one of the ... Though born a slave, he worked his own freedom, secured that of his mother by a ...

"Songs of the Illinois Freedom Road" at Beardstown Grand Opera House; a discussion at 7 p.m. May 17 by Patrick Hotle, "The Early Underground Railroad in Western Illinois," at the Old Lincoln ...

But Tubman was able to create a network of stations and operators helped to lead escaped slaves North to freedom. One of the songs of the Underground Railroad was “Wade in the Water”.