underground railroad
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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
April Mayes: She's the daughter of runaway slave Reverend Jermain Loguen, who was an abolitionist who operated a station of the underground railroad under his house in Syracuse, New York.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
This mysterious underground railroad was spoken of, in whispers, in the quarter on the Brodas plantation, just as it was on all the other plantations.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
