How did the Underground Railroad contribute to the development of a more inclusive and democratic vision of American citizenship?

Join us as we speak with Kathy Schulz, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio, as she shares the stories she's uncovered and the research she delved into ... May 3, 2019 ... These quilts were embedded with a kind of code, so that by reading the shapes and motifs sewn into the design, an enslaved person on the run ... Black, White, and Native people were involved despite Federal laws making such help illegal. These networks became known as the Underground Railroad. The North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association (NCUGRHA) researches, preserves and interprets the history of the Underground Railroad, slavery ... Who we are: The Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) is a coalition of organizations across New York State with programs and sites related ... ABOUT. The Heritage Center's mission is to reveal authentic stories of Underground Railroad freedom seekers and abolitionists in Niagara Falls that inspire ... An American masterpiece (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. May 13, 2021 ... The Underground Railroad is a towering series about the ways slavery still infects America. Amazon's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel turns a masterpiece ... 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. Quakers of the 18th and 19th century were very aware that Quakers had once held slaves, people who had worked for Quakers but had not been paid for their ...