Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad by Paul Collins

Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century. It was used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with abolitionists, Quakers, church leaders, and antislavery activists who were sympathetic to their cause. It operated in the dead of night, and its route was communicated through word of mouth, songs, and symbols on stitched-on quilts.

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in 1849, yet risked her freedom to become an abolitionist and conductor of the underground railroad guiding other slaves to freedom. She was a force to be reckoned with and referred to as “the Moses of her people.”