How did the Underground Railroad adapt to the increasing polarization of American society in the years leading up to the Civil War?

This article is from the Encyclopedia of North Carolina edited by William S. Powell. Copyright © 2006 by the University of North Carolina Press. 6 days ago ... a system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the US before 1863 by which people escaping enslavement were secretly helped to reach the North or ... This three-week institute will bring together 25 middle and high school teachers to study the beginnings of the abolitionist movement and the Underground ... The Blairsville Area Underground Railroad is dedicated to the brave men, women, and children who used this network to freedom. The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Freedom Trail is now a byway — the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, with Maryland and Delaware Harriet Tubman ... Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force ... The mission of the Underground Railroad Task Force is to develop a statewide plan to connect existing local projects ... An intimate look at the lives and journeys of 27 individuals who sought freedom from slavery along the B&O. This system transported escaping slaves in coaches, trains, steamships, and skiffs--though feet and wagons were the most common means of conveyance. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia ... Aug 5, 2016 ... The underground railroad is not, in Whitehead's novel, the secret network of passageways and safe houses used by runaway slaves to reach the free North.