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The list of Underground Railroad sites includes abolitionist locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century North America before and during the American Civil War. It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end slavery in the ...
Thomas Garrett (August 21, 1789 – January 25, 1871) was an American abolitionist and assisted in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. He helped more than 2,500 African Americans escape slavery. For his efforts, he was threatened, harassed, and assaulted.
Feb. 23—Students at Sarah Scott Middle School didn't just learn about the Underground Railroad this week. They experienced it through an interactive play in which they portrayed slaves escaping ...
Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (LSU Press, 2001) Clarke, Robert L. "The Florida Railroad Company in the Civil War," Journal of Southern History (1953) 19#2 pp. 180–192 in JSTOR; Cotterill, R. S. "The Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1861-1865," American Historical Review (1924) 29#4 pp. 700–715 ...
According to former professor of Pan-African studies, J. Blaine Hudson, who was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville, by the end of the American Civil War 500,000 or more African Americans self-emancipated from slavery on the Underground Railroad.
William Still (October 7, 1819 [1] [2] – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He was a conductor of the Underground Railroad and was responsible for aiding and assisting at least 649 slaves to freedom.
A mortar mounted on a railroad car used during the Civil War, 1865. Rail was strategic during the American Civil War, and the Union used its much larger system much more effectively. Practically all the mills and factories supplying rails and equipment were in the North, and the Union blockade kept the South from getting new equipment or spare ...
The Underground Railroad helped change Hoosier opinions about slavery. In the decades prior to the Civil War, Indiana's abolitionists, antislavery supporters, and free people of color remained staunchly opposed to slavery, but the majority of Indiana residents were indifferent to the issue.