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”.

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 ...

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 ...

Racine is the home to a church that is more than a place of worship, as it also served as a key part of the path to freedom for many fleeing slavery in the U.S.In this week's 58 ...

"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 ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a testament to her remarkable ...

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 ...

The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum, or the Burkle Estate, draws visitors back to the pre-Civil War era. The main house was once used as a shelter for slaves along the Underground Railroad.

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”.