Currents
Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Currents Over the Line Beginning in the early nineteenth century, a clandestine movement known as the Underground Railroad helped African American slaves escape bondage in the South to freedom in the North. Adopting the vocabulary of the railroad, this secret passage to freedom consisted of a loosely organized network of abolitionists who lived in the southern border states and in the North and assisted...read more