The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad includes the routes, stations, safehouses, abolitionists, conductors and communities where blacks who freed themselves from slavery by escaping the plantations in the U.S. traveled until they reached to Canada. While the British abolished slavery in 1834, the U.S. still maintained slavery and this led many black Americans to escape from slavery to places of freedom from enslavement.
1800s-1850s
- The Underground Railroad
Provides maps, timelines and narratives on the underground railroad.
URL:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She demonstrated the determined spirit of African ancestored peole to resist and destroy slavery as an institution of economic capital and racism of one cultural group by another
- Owen Sound Black History
From about 1830 to the end of the American Civil War, escaped slaves made their way across the Canada-US border via the Underground Railroad. Many headed for the Village of Sydenham (Owen Sound), the last terminal of the Railroad and settled here, finding work and raising families. It is only recently that the contribution of these early settlers to the City’s development and growth has begun to be acknowledged.
URL:http://www.osblackhistory.com/index.php
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