The Underground Railroad

You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer. Six long days a week, you tend to his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet, your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard and dangerous trek. Do you try it? Today, I would like to speak to you about the Underground Railroad, an …

…for her capture. Slaves who followed the North Star traveled over fairly well defined routes. The most heavily traveled ones ran through Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsylvania. Large numbers of fugitives followed these routes and reached Canada by ways of Detroit or Niagara Falls, New York. Others sailed across Lake Erie to Ontario from such ports as Erie, Philadelphia and Sandusky, Ohio. Many runaway slaves followed routes from eastern Pennsylvania through New England to Quebec.