Search Results for: The Underground Railroad In Delaware

Detailed maps trace the routes runaway slaves followed. Explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on

Read the stories of freedom seekers as they passed through Delaware in the decades before the Civil War. Countless men and women traveled to freedom on an infor

In the years before the Civil War, countless men and women traveled to freedom on an informal network of backroads and friendly houses that formed the Delaware

Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. He believed strongly in