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
Benicio del Toro plays Sensei Sergio St. Carlos, Willa’s karate teacher running something of an underground railroad for the town’s refugee population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
This week the factory manufactured locomotive engines—Caesar wondered whether they would one day be used by the underground railroad.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
