Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses for fugitive slaves to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada during the era of slavery
David Ruggles between two men confronting John P. Darg
Freedom seekers escaped to the Great Dismal Swamp's maroon community.
Harriet Tubman (photo H. B. Lindsley), c. 1870. A worker on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made 13 trips to the South, helping to free over 70 people. She led people to the northern free states and Canada. This helped Harriet Tubman gain the name "Moses of Her People".
Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin and his wife Catherine helped more than 2,000 enslaved people escape to freedom.
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end Chattel slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the ab
Collection box for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, c. 1850, design partly based on the Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion
Thones Kunders's house at 5109 Germantown Avenue, where the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was written
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), judge who wrote The Selling of Joseph (1700) which denounced the spread of slavery in the American colonies
Grave of Benjamin Kent, lawyer who freed a slave in America (1766)