Underground Railroad

From Salem Links and Lore

During the early and mid-1800's Essex County was a hotbed of underground activity. Area Quakers and other

religious leaders, writers and transcendentalists and prominent free blacks harbored runaway slaves en route to Canada.

In so doing, they defied the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

For more, see Abolitionists on this wiki.


See Also

Vertical File in Salem Collection - Underground Railroad

Vertical File in Salem Collection - Black History

Abolitionists and the underground railroad in Essex Nation Heritage Area Essex National Heritage Area

The Underground Railroad in Massachusetts Siebert, W.

"Network to freedom; revisiting the underground railroad" Salem Evening News, Feb. 21, 2002, p. B1

"Park Service celebrates Underground Railroad in Essex County" Salem News, Feb. 16, 2006, p. A1

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