underground railroad

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Still, it is unclear how organized the underground railroad heading to Mexico truly was, the Associated Press reported in 2020, with archives destroyed in a fire and sites along the path abandoned.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

KCK also became a major stop on the underground railroad, escaped slaves gaining freedom the instant they crossed the river into Kansas, an abolitionist state.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

A Black woman, forced into an intimate relationship with the white man who controls her every move, flees to freedom via an underground railroad of sympathetic strangers, and then grapples with what freedom means.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

A route from the North Korean border, running through China and into Southeast Asia, is marked out on it — the underground railroad to freedom for defectors.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023

For the first time, she crossed into another state without using the underground railroad.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead