underground railroad

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KCK also became a major stop on the underground railroad, escaped slaves gaining freedom the instant they crossed the river into Kansas, an abolitionist state.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

A Black woman, forced into an intimate relationship with the white man who controls her every move, flees to freedom via an underground railroad of sympathetic strangers, and then grapples with what freedom means.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

A route from the North Korean border, running through China and into Southeast Asia, is marked out on it — the underground railroad to freedom for defectors.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023

This neighborhood, riddled with underground railroad safe houses and hidden alleyways for a quick escape, was a refuge for those fleeing bondage.

From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2023

By that autumn, his farm was the latest office of the underground railroad, busy with fugitives and conductors.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead