If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge from ...

A new Michigan map highlights stories of people fleeing enslavement in the mid-1800s, abolitionists who assisted them and communities that stepped up to protect people seeking freedom. The Michigan ...

Advisory: This project contains descriptions of violence and dehumanizing language to reflect the horrors that Black people and Native Americans were routinely subjected to during the era of American ...