Alaska may have been the destination of African Americans, who, after traveling to Canada or New England coastal cities, became sailors on...

Alexandria Freedmen's Cemetery was the site of burial of enslaved people who had fled seeking freedom and refuge.

Blanche K. Bruce escaped from enslavement in Missouri, eventually becoming a US senator. He is buried in DC.

Research center and repository of Underground Railroad documents

Camp Stanton served a pivotal role in helping African American's achieve their freedom by joining the Union forces.

The most noted escape to take place at Colonial Park occurred in 1842 when Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) stowed away aboard a ship.

Abolitionists in the United States argued that the freedom seeker’s decision to make the dangerous trek on the Underground Railroad undercut...

Located in the village of Lancaster, Indiana, Eleutherian College was founded by Reverend Thomas Craven.

Forks of the Roads Slave Market during its existence served as the second largest enslavement market in the Deep South.

Fort Mose, one of the "Negro Forts," is a precursor site of the Underground Railroad.

The final home of Frederick Douglass, freedom seeker and abolitionist speaker and writer, commemorates his entire life.

Jacob Burkle was among those in the anti-slavery movement who risked their lives to help escaping Africans.

It was from this farm that John Brown set forth to Harpers Ferry with his plan to end slavery through armed confrontation...

This was the home of Presbyterian minister John Rankin who is reputed to have been one of Ohio’s first and most active conductors on the...

The Loudoun County Courthouse is associated with two trials of free blacks who sought to free bondsmen.

The Milton House illustrates the spread of abolition and its transformation from a moral to a political issue.

Local newspapers document at least 5 examples of runaway slaves incarcerated in the Old Jail in St. Mary's between 1858 and the Civil War.

 The Pasquotank River runs between Pasquotank and Camden Counties in northeast North Carolina...

Phill escapes from his master while he is in St. Francesville.

Quindaro was a Wyandot Indian town named after Nancy Quindaro Brown, Wyandot Chief Adam Brown’s daughter.

As a site of enslavement, Sottereley Plantation was the starting point for freedom seekers Towerhill, Clem, and George Briscoe.

While Richard Bland Lee lived at Sully, Fairfax County, VA, 4 known incidents of bondsmen running away occurred.

In 1862, the Union army defeated a Confederate force on Roanoke Island, thus allowing ex-slaves and freedmen to establish an independent community.