The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

The Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes and safe houses that, by one estimation, enabled 100,000 enslaved people to escape to safety. As opposition to slavery grew in the early ...

On the reverse side, a map illustrates the broad paths and an explanation of the Underground Railroad Network to ... Their home was near important escape routes connecting multiple cities to ...

Moreover, the stamp pane’s verso features a map detailing the general ... and geographical scope of the escape routes. The introduction of the Underground Railroad Forever stamps, which will ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad ... life. To escape the deep South and ...