In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and ...

TORONTO (AP) — Freight trains are expected to start rolling again soon in Canada after the government forced the country’s two major railroads into arbitration with their labor union Thursday ...

In greeting members of a full-house audience, David Thomas set the scene for the evening’s topic, the Underground Railroad in ...

For decades in the 19th century, thousands of escaped slaves sought freedom using the so-called Underground Railroad, trying to reach northern states and Canada. In Natick, Edward Walcott was a ...

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The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

The British Empire, of which Canada was a part, abolished slavery throughout its territories in 1833. Underground Railroad activity flourished in cities such as Rochester and Buffalo which were ...