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Following upon legislation passed in 1990 for the National Park Service to perform a special resource study of the Underground Railroad, [221] in 1997, the 105th Congress introduced and subsequently passed H.R. 1635 – National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998, which President Bill Clinton signed into law that year. [222]
Underground Railroad promoter and station master and anti-slavery lecturer. The Guy Beckley House is on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. [43] Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek [44] Second Baptist Church — Detroit [17] Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft [17] Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County.
In 2004 a large historical marker was erected at the site to mark it as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Trail, as hundreds of Black Seminoles, many fugitive slaves, escaped from here to freedom in the Bahamas, settling mostly on Andros Island.
Estimates say that, between 1820 and 1860, the Underground Railroad helped about 1,000 African Americans in the U.S. to freedom each year. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated that ...
Sheri Jackson, Southeast Regional Manager of the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, asked Papson, founder of the North Country Underground Railroad ...
The island was also a refugee camp for freedom seekers. It is situated in the Potomac River . [ 1 ] It has been made an Underground Railroad site on the National Park Service 's Network to Freedom .
Ohio was a key and prolific partner in assisting freedom seekers through the Underground Railroad. We spotlighted four stops near Columbus to visit.
Built in the early 1800s on South Wawaset Road in Pocopson Township, the Eusebius Barnard House is a stone farmhouse that has been listed on the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom since October 2022. [7]