and helped the fugitives settle into a community by helping them find jobs and providing letters of recommendation. The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield ...

He came north to New York during the 1850s, where he married and started a family, and where he also became involved with the Underground Railroad ... discovered the letter nailed to a beam ...

“He describes the Underground Railroad and who in the town he thought was involved,” said Peterson. In the letter, Smith describes his own father’s involvement. His father was William Harris ...