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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Around that same time, Priscilla Baltimore and Bishop William Paul Quinn, an African Methodist Episcopal missionary, established the town’s AME church, which along with a Baptist church and a number of homes, served as stops in the Underground Railroad.
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Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
After his best-selling book was published, Northup became an active member of the abolitionist movement, giving speeches throughout the Northeast, staging plays based on his story and likely helping enslaved people on the Underground Railroad.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2025
Part of the drama was that the Community Board had already turned down co-naming Lispenard Street for David Ruggles, a Black publisher and abolitionist whose home on that street was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
—Fran Hoepfner, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2024
Every unexpected descent into a flooding canyon or grueling trek up an icy mountain emphasizes the lions’ vulnerability to the elements—or the vital importance of their connection to the land, a thread that mirrors Jenkins’s approach in his 2021 TV adaptation of The Underground Railroad.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
After his best-selling book was published, Northup became an active member of the abolitionist movement, giving speeches throughout the Northeast, staging plays based on his story and likely helping enslaved people on the Underground Railroad.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2025
Part of the drama was that the Community Board had already turned down co-naming Lispenard Street for David Ruggles, a Black publisher and abolitionist whose home on that street was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
—Fran Hoepfner, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2024
Every unexpected descent into a flooding canyon or grueling trek up an icy mountain emphasizes the lions’ vulnerability to the elements—or the vital importance of their connection to the land, a thread that mirrors Jenkins’s approach in his 2021 TV adaptation of The Underground Railroad.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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