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In 1848, Ellen and William Craft escaped from slavery in Georgia by Ellen posing as a Southern gentleman and William as 'his' slave (since women were not allowed to travel alone with a male slave). They arrived in the free state of Pennsylvania...

The Immortal Ten were a group of abolitionists from Kansas Territory (where slavery was hotly contested) who slipped across the Missouri River into St. Joseph, Missouri (a slave state) and, on 23 July 1859, freed their friend and fellow abolitionist...

The railways were perhaps the most visible element of the Industrial Revolution for many. Trains powered by steam engines carried goods and people faster than ever before and reached new destinations, connecting businesses to new markets...

Among the most daring escapes from slavery in the United States in the 19th century was the flight of Ellen and William Craft from the slave state of Georgia to the free state of Pennsylvania in 1848. Ellen (1826-1891), a light-skinned Black...

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American impressionist painter who lived most of her life in France. She focussed on capturing women at their daily tasks in oils, pastels, and prints, and produced many innovative representations of mothers...

William Still (1819-1902), the abolitionist known as the "Father of the Underground Railroad" for the records of escaped slaves he kept and later published as The Underground Railroad Records in 1872, c. 1898.

Discover the real Harriet Tubman in this compelling documentary narrated by Alfrelynn Roberts and featuring expert interviews with leading scholars, including Dr. Eric Lewis Williams of the Smithsonian Institute and Carl Westmoreland of the...

A photograph of Harriet Tubman, former slave and the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, by Harvey B. Lindsley (1842-1921), c. 1871. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Former slave, abolitionist, and famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, cropped from the original photograph by Horatio Seymour Squyer, 1885. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Runaway Slave Poster, 1837, republished in "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom" by Wilbur Henry Siebert, Albert Bushnell Hart Edition: Published by Macmillan, 1898, pg. 26.