Where did the Underground Railroad routes primarily run?

Feb 10, 2017 ... Whitehead detailed his journey to becoming a writer and the story behind “The Underground Railroad” on Thursday as the featured speaker of the VCU Libraries' ... Aug 26, 2016 ... At every point of entry, opening “The Underground Railroad” feels like reentering the actual pages of the book, itself a lightless tunnel, as ... 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. In this lesson students will analyze five letters written from Thomas Garrett to William Still, both active agents in the Underground Railroad. The Blairsville Area Underground Railroad is dedicated to the brave men, women, and children who used this network to freedom. The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African ... Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery as early as the 16th century, and many of their escapes were unaided; however, a network of safe ... 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 ... 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 ... The new The Underground Railroad stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® ...