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The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States [1] and Eastern Canada. …

Feb 1, 2013 · Underground Railroad Timeline: First Africans brought to North America and enslaved at St. Augustine, Florida. Underground Railroad begins when some unknown aids …

1820: Vestal and Levi Coffin send fugitive slaves overland with Quaker emigrants from North Carolina to Indiana, establishing the first long distance route of the Underground Railroad.

Timeline Description: The Underground Railroad (1790s to 1860s) was a linked network of individuals willing and able to help fugitive slaves escape to safety. They hid individuals in …

Spanish settlers bring slaves from Africa to Santo Domingo. Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain’s North American colonies. Like indentured servants, they …

Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Barry Jenkins subsequently adapts the novel into a television series that premiers on streaming …

The Underground Railroad existed for 280 years— more than a quarter of a millennium—from 1585 when the first enslaved people from Africa arrived in the New World at the Spanish …

The Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada, began in 1786 when the first abolitionist …

Oct 29, 2009 · It developed as a convergence of several different clandestine efforts. The exact dates of its existence are not known, but it operated from the late 18th century to the Civil War, …