Railroad: Did you mean...?

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

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

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.

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.

Photograph of John Brown (1800-1859), abolitionist and member of the Underground Railroad, famous for his raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859, by Levin C. Handy, c. 1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...

A hand-colored lithograph of the Niagara Suspension Bridge, showing the Niagara Falls in the background, by Charles Parsons (1821-1910). Freedom Seekers on...

Anna Maria Weems disguised as "Joe Wright" escaping slavery in Maryland in 1855. Illustration from page 183 of an 1872 edition of The Underground Railroad by William Still.

William Still Historical Marker at 244 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While living here, William Still was an Underground Railroad agent who helped slaves escape and kept records so...

Lear Green (c. 1839-1860), a former slave who had herself shipped in a crate from Baltimore, Maryland, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery, illustration from The Underground Railroad by William Still...

Engraving of Jane Johnson, from The Underground Railroad, by William Still, 1872.