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Historic Underground Railroad site may become part of National Park Service

An Underground Railroad site in Ripley is under consideration to become part of the National Park Service.

Historic Underground Railroad site, John P. Parker house in Ripley, OH, may become part of National Park Service

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A Secret Society Tied to the Underground Railroad Fights to Save Its Home

The Black women of the United Order of Tents are scrambling to save their grand Brooklyn headquarters, and to preserve their ambitious futur

The United Order of Tents, which dates back to 1848, has ties to the Underground Railroad and a mission to care for the aged, respectfully bury the dead and promote sisterhood.

For generations, the Tents — members of a secret society of Black women whose 19th-century founders had once been enslaved — held meetings upstairs, cooked meals in the kitchen and performed secret ceremonies in the parlor. ...For generations, the Tents — members of a secret society of Black women whose 19th-century founders had once been enslaved — held meetings upstairs, cooked meals in the kitchen and performed secret ceremonies in the parlor.

If you've got some money to spare, please consider donating to help the Tents save their home.

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The Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad

The author of a book about William Still unearths new details about the leading Black abolitionist—and reflects on his lost legacy

William "Still’s actions are easier to miss in part because when he told the stories of the Underground Railroad, he removed himself from the spotlight and placed it on the actions of fugitives from slavery themselves. In 1872, Still published a monumental account of his work, The Underground Railroad, almost 800 pages recounting the stories of hundreds of fugitives he helped on their way north. For those looking to learn about Still’s actions, this book has sometimes proved frustrating; it can be difficult to find his hand at all. This was by design. Still understood, and wanted his readers to understand, that fugitive slaves were the engine of the Underground Railroad, that they were agents in their own liberation."

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Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

A historian marks the 200th birthday of a fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad with a visit to her birthplace, only to learn how c

This year commemorates the 200th anniversary of [Harriet Tubman's] birth and tributes to Tubman abound, including those set in the landscape of her native Dorchester County. ...

Rising waters of climate change are washing away the memories of Tubman that are embedded in the coastal marshland she knew so well."

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Mifflin House, the Underground Railroad and Civil War site, preserved for $5.5 million

The Conservation Fund bought the property, and it will be transferred to the Susquehanna National Heritage Area.

"Six years after the Mifflin House, a stop on the Underground Railroad and the site of a Civil War skirmish, faced potential demolition for a warehouse, the historic property near the Susquehanna River in eastern York County has been saved.

The Conservation Fund purchased the Mifflin House property last week for $5.5 million. The amount includes acquisition costs.

The environmental nonprofit will serve as a temporary owner until its partners, including the Susquehanna National Heritage Area and Preservation Pennsylvania, can secure the funding pledged for the nearly 88-acre property, which sits just off Route 30 in Hellam Township, according to a news release.'

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Oberlin Underground Railroad Center will be dedicated to George Abram

OBERLIN — City Council has approved plans to dedicate the new pavilion at the Underground Railroad Center to the late George Abram. As the Oberlin Underground Railroad Center project neared the end of the second phase of construction, the center’s implementation team decided Aug. 8 it would like to dedicate the center to former team chairman George Abram for his service to the Oberlin community. Abram, known as “The Voice of Oberlin,” died at age 89 on March 18 at the Hospice of the Western Reserve in Westlake. He served as chairman for the implementation team from 2009 to a short time before his death. City Council President Bryan Burgess called him a pillar of the community at the Oct. 1 council meeting. “His contributions in the past few years pertaining to the Oberlin Underground

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Monday Motivation for that ass.

“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.” 

Harriet Tubman to Sarah Bradford in Harriet, The Moses of Her People1886