William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario. Underground Railroad ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped ... efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation. Still, it effectively moved hundreds of slaves northward each year ...

The report shows there could be as many as 200 sites in Illinois associated with the Underground Railroad, with many of the houses and churches still standing. William Still, an abolitionist from ...

“In a very nuanced way, even amidst the trauma, the people, the characters [of The Underground Railroad] still retain their humanity. And because of that, I think their personhood remains intac ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network ... the raid on the train still angered some white Canadians. "A great outrage has been ...