Underground Railroad
noun
variants
or less commonly Underground Railway
: a system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the U.S. before 1863 by which people escaping enslavement were secretly helped to reach the North or Canada
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This novel offers a new perspective on the workings of the Underground Railroad, with its setting across several actual communities in northern Ohio in the mid-19th century.
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The Know, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
It's believed that Broderick and his friend Col. Leonides K. Haskell, both outspoken anti-slavery officials, had hidden runaway slaves from the Underground Railroad in the cellar of Haskell's house.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
Yes, Mahalia!, 7:30 p.m., National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E. Freedom Way, Downtown.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2024
And Spit on the Broom was a surrealist doc that put the history of the African American women’s group the United Order of Tents, a clandestine organization organized in the 1840s during the height of the Underground Railroad, center stage.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2024
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The Know, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
It's believed that Broderick and his friend Col. Leonides K. Haskell, both outspoken anti-slavery officials, had hidden runaway slaves from the Underground Railroad in the cellar of Haskell's house.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
Yes, Mahalia!, 7:30 p.m., National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E. Freedom Way, Downtown.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2024
And Spit on the Broom was a surrealist doc that put the history of the African American women’s group the United Order of Tents, a clandestine organization organized in the 1840s during the height of the Underground Railroad, center stage.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2024
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