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- Detroit-Windsor Freedom Tour
Describes sites in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario related to the Underground Railroad and the Civil Rights Movement.
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- Enlightenments from the Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad History Butler County Ohio. Highlights Methodist Church involvement. Special focus on the following people: James D Conrey, Anna Conrey, John Ford Conrey, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Van Zandt, Charles Elliott, Eliza Harris, Luther Bruen, Susan D. Howell, James Downing
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- Horane Smith
The author of Lover's Leap and Underground to Freedom discusses his recent works.
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- John Hossack
History and genealogy of John Hossack, Abolitionist, of Ottawa, Illinois. He was canal builder on the I&M, Illinois and Michigan Canal, a Lumber and Grain Merchant, and a conductor on the underground railroad.
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- Levi Coffin House
Known as the "Grand Central Station" of the Underground Railroad. A designated national historic site." "Eliza", whose story is told in Uncle Tom's Cabin, stayed in this home on her way to freedom.
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- Living the Experience
A reenactment production of the Underground Railroad at the historical Lancaster Bethel AME Church, Pennsylvania. Selection of scanned documents, photo gallery, timeline, and profiles of historical figures, as well as video clips, tickets, and other show information.
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- Michigan Historical Museum
Before the war many Michigan citizens helped slaves escape from the South, via the Underground Railroad, a secret, often informal, organization of safe hiding places and people willing to provide transportation between them.
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- North Carolina's Underground Railroad
Some 50,000 North Carolinians left the state and moved to Ohio or Indiana in protest to slavery during the thirty years before the Civil War is not widely known. As the frustration with more restrictive and harsh laws over slaves and slave owning were passed, some Quakers, like Levi Coffin, began to illegally assist escaping slaves to flee the state.
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- The Underground Railroad
This site allows you to go on the journey to the North from a slave's point of view and follow their path as they try to escape from their southern bondage. You can "visit safe houses which Harriet Tubman actually used" and see pictures. There are maps of her actual routes and information describing how she traveled them.
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- The Underground Railroad
Explore one of the most harrowing and inspiring chapters in American history. In this special feature, you'll find the story of the railroad and unique profiles of the Black Americans who made the railroad run.
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- The Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York
While the stringent laws of The Fugitive Slave Act were being enforced and the institution of slavery continued unabated, many abolitionists assisted escaped slaves regardless of the consequences. These abolitionists, who were primarily composed of Quakers, ex-slaves and other liberal thinking citizens, helped establish what was known as the Underground Railroad.
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- The Underground Railroad Site
For the many African Americans who lived in the Slave States prior to and during the American Civil War, the Underground Railroad provided them the opportunity and assistance for escaping slavery and finding freedom. One of the most curious characteristics of the Underground Railroad was its lack of formal organization.
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- Under Ground Railroad House
This house was part of the underground railroad. There it a lot of pictures and information concerning this house.
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- Underground Railroad
Niagara County, New York, was extremely active in the organized effort to guide and help escaping slaves out of the United States and into the protective boundaries of Canada.
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- Underground to Freedom
The relentless efforts of one American slave to reach the "Promised Land", Canada, through the underground railroad movement.
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