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The Underground Railroad was responsible for assisting thousands of slaves escape from slavery into freedom. They were assisted by people they named "conductors".  No individual organization was responsible for helping the fugitive slaves; the Slaves were assisted by whites but mostly blacks who provided the means for them to escape to the North and Canada. The following links are an account of the journey from slavery to freedom.

 

Underground Railroad Conductors

 

Henry Bibb 1815-1854

John Brown 1800-1859

Harriet Tubman 1820 - 1913

Mary Ann Shadd 1823- ?

Anthony Burns 1834-1862

Frances E. W. Harper 

Richard Pierpoint 1744-1838

Frederick Douglass 1817-1895

John "Daddy" Hall 1783-1900

Josiah Henson 1789 - ?

William Hamilton Merritt

Alexander Ross 

 

Related Pages

John Brown's Role

Timeline by Nat'l Geographic

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

 

 

 

Station Locations

Indiana - The Levi Coffin House

Illinois - Owen Lovejoy House

Kentucky's Underground Railroad

Indiana - Bethel A.M.E. Church

Virginia -  Bruin's Slave Jail

Pennsylvania -  Bethel A.M.E. Church

Kansas - John Brown's Cabin

Florida - British Fort

Iowa - Todd House

Colorado - Barney L. Ford Building

Iowa - George B. Hitchock House

Michigan - Dr. Nathan Thomas House

Iowa - Milton House

Ohio - Harriet Beecher Stowe House

New York -  Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Maine -  Harriet Beecher Stowe House

                   New York Locations

New Jersey -  Peter Mott House

Massachusetts -  William Lloyd Garrison House 

Delaware - Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House 

Connecticut - Austin F. Williams House & Carriage House

Maryland -  John Brown Headquarters

District of Columbia -  Mary Ann Shad Cary House

West Virginia -  Jefferson Co. Courthouse

 

Prominent Participants of the Underground Railroad

 

Frederick Douglass

W. E. B. Du Bois

Frances E. W. Harper

 

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Josiah Henson

Henry W. Bibb