Search results
1 day ago · Despite the Fugitive Slave Law, the Underground Railroad remained the "heart’s blood" of black resistance. Black woman abolitionists played a vital role in this work. They were often the ones who intercepted refugees; who provided them with food, clothing, shelter, health care, and spiritual and psychological comfort; and who directed them to the next station.
2 days ago · The post Rachel Morrison Charts Her Journey From Film School to Oscar History appeared first on TheWrap. TheWrap magazine: "The second a woman second-guesses herself even for a millisecond, she's quick to be labeled indecisive," says the Oscar-nominated director of "The Fire Inside" The post Rachel Morrison Charts Her Journey From Film School ...
1 day ago · Marker Text: Bishop William Hanby, (1807-1880) courageous and of strong convictions, publicly voiced his scorn at a law that made it a felony to give food to a hungry slave, or shelter to a friendless man. From pulpit, platform, and workbench he condemned the inhumane Fugitive Slave law of 1850.
5 days ago · The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-1800s, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states, Canada and Nova Scotia with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
2 days ago · Harriet Tubman was among the best known conductors of the Underground Railroad, a network of enslaved people, free blacks, and white sympathizers that assisted thousands of runaway slaves escape north.
4 days ago · Davids, enslaved in Kentucky, successfully escaped to Ohio in 1830. The term "Underground Railroad" is thought to have been coined based on his escape. His owner had been pursuing Davids but lost track of him in Ohio.
People also ask
What was the Underground Railroad?
Who are the actors in The Underground Railroad?
Is there a TV show about the Underground Railroad?
6 days ago · Born into slavery on the plantation of John D. Brown in Henrico County, Virginia, Caroline Brown came to Columbus with her son Edward and daugther Constantia in the 1850s. Edward built this house for his mother around 1854.
