A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century.

Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...

Detroit (code name “Midnight”) and Windsor, Ontario, are rich in Underground Railroad history. Some of the most notable sites ...

What many people don’t know about is the significance of Bucks County’s connection to the Underground Railroad ... famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Lucretia Mott.

In Rochester, New York, the last stop on the Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglass published the abolitionist newspaper The North Star, naming it after the icon followed by so many escaped ...

which was at one time the whaling capital of the world and where Frederick Douglass lived for a while. It’s of a guy who had escaped on the Underground Railroad and was now trying to raise money ...