For the sake of sharing some newly emerging Black and deeply rooted American history, Hayden Flanagan, 13, a student at Calvin Christian School in South Holland, had no reservations about playing the ...

The Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond project uncovers stories of enslaved people who escaped during the 17th to early 19th centuries. The ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Although long ignored in Underground Railroad scholarship, evidence indicates ...

As the young nation expanded westward, so did slavery and the need to escape it. From the 1830s through the Civil War, more than 4,000 enslaved people are said to have escaped to Detroit and Canada by ...