Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black fugitives fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad, Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For generations, the ...

As the nation expanded westward, the dispute over slavery intensified. Citizens of Southern slave states clashed with Northern activists who were morally opposed to slavery. Would the new territories ...

Vermonters were up in arms. Congress had just struck a deal with the devil, they believed, by caving in to the Southern slave states. The Vermont Legislature responded aggressively by passing a law to ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...