In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad. The Lewelling Quaker Museum sits on South Main Street. David and Cathy Helman, docents and ...

The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more ...

The Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes ... one of his runaway slaves had been assisted by “a society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.” While this support system was ...

Nestled in the back of the Guilford College woods is a lone champion tulip poplar tree. At more than 350 years old, it has ...

In the North, Hicksite Quakers and other abolitionists provided some of the most organized support for the Underground Railroad. Particularly in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act, a night's ...