Welcome to the Underground Railroad Research Forum

Join us as we go back in time and "travel" with the ancestors who utilized the trails, byways, waterways, and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad in their quest for freedom in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Discuss the lives of the abolitionists, conductors, safe-house owners and other anti-slavers as well as slavecatchers and those who created and supported the Fugitive Slave Laws. Feel free to discuss the Overground Railroad, routes used by slavetraders to take enslaved people from the border and northern slave states to the slave markets and plantations in the deep south.

Finally, discuss and lend support to the efforts of the Overground and Underground Railroad preservationists and educators.

WELCOME ABOARD!!

Bennie McRae
Forum Manager