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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There’s even a Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center.
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Joan Michelson, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
There’s also free admission to the Mother Rudd House and Museum in Gurnee, one of Lake County’s oldest solid structures built in 1841, which was a haven for the Underground Railroad.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman led other enslaved people to freedom using the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and allies who helped Southern slaves travel north in safety.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
But one item went a little farther back: a snippet of a receipt that may have been hand-written and signed by a prominent Civil War veteran, abolitionist, Underground Railroad facilitator and pastor.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
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Joan Michelson, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
There’s also free admission to the Mother Rudd House and Museum in Gurnee, one of Lake County’s oldest solid structures built in 1841, which was a haven for the Underground Railroad.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman led other enslaved people to freedom using the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and allies who helped Southern slaves travel north in safety.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
But one item went a little farther back: a snippet of a receipt that may have been hand-written and signed by a prominent Civil War veteran, abolitionist, Underground Railroad facilitator and pastor.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
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