User:Peterfitzgerald/Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a vast, informal network of safehouses, organizations, abolitionists, routes, and transportation in the nineteenth century used to aid slaves in escaping bondage to flee to the free states of the North and to Canada. The network as a whole was decentralized and often spontaneous, consisting of regional underground organizations, religious groups, individual sympathizers, professional "operators," and local municipal organizations, etc. This itinerary tracks an especially well traveled route...