The wagon wheels sank into the frozen ruts outside Newport before the first light showed. I held the reins loose and listened for the sound of another set of hooves behind us on the Madison trace. The ...

Fountain City, Indiana — So many African Americans fleeing slavery in the mid-19 th century passed through Levi and Catharine Coffin’s Indiana home that it became known as the “Grand Central Station ...

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, N.Y. will induct four new members on Saturday, Oct. 19. The inductees include a husband-and-wife team who helped thousands escape slavery ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A new Forever stamp is featuring a Hoosier who helped more than 1,000 people escape slavery through the Underground Railroad. The Levi and Catharine Coffin State Historic Site, in ...

click image for close-up Around 1893, American artist Charles T. Webber painted The Underground Railroad, as a tribute to the work of abolitionists earlier in the century. The painting shows fugitive ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana woman was honored Thursday with a new Forever stamp commemorating her efforts to help thousands of enslaved men and women find their way to freedom through the Underground ...

Levi Coffin had just moved to Newport, Indiana, an ideal location in which to help fugitive slaves. Despite being born and raised in the slave state of North Carolina, Coffin was an adamant opponent ...