Underground Railroad

:This page is for the U.S. slave escape route. For railroads elsewhere built underground, see Metro and London Underground.

External links

Footnotes:

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• ¹John Rankin House, from National Park Service.
• ²Number of Underground Railroad refugees arriving in Canada from Parks Canada.

Web Sites:

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• The William Still National Underground Railroad Foundation
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• National Park Service: Aboard the Underground Railroad
• National Geographic: Underground Railroad
• Maryland's Cooling Springs Farm: The Story of a Still-Existing Underground Railroad Safe-House
• Underground Railroad in Canada
• Ontario's Underground Railroad - Includes an interactive map, a tour, and more.
• Underground Railroad in Westfield, Indiana - Includes Anti-Slavery Friends Cemetery list and more

Books:

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• Captains Drayton and Sayres; Or the way in which Americans are treated, for aiding the cause of Liberty at Home, 1848, Eastern Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (tract on the Pearl Rescue)
• Underground Railroad, 1872, by William Still, from Project Gutenberg (classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia, PA)
• Stories of the Underground Railroad, 1941, by Anna L. Curtis (stories about Thomas Garrett, a famous agent on the Underground Railroad)
• "Robert Hayden: His Day is Now!" contains the poet's classic "Runagate, Runagate" ("Renegade, Renegade")

Folklore:

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• Putting it in Perspective: The Symbolism of Underground Railroad quilts
• Underground Railroad Quilts & Abolitionist Fairs
• Documentary Evidence is Missing on Underground Railroad Quilts