A 1898 map showing Underground Railroad routes overlaid with a drawing of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (left) and the Thomas Hoyne residence (right). The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 turned Chicago ...

She later claimed to have never lost a passenger on the Underground Railroad. And when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which allowed authorities in non-slave states to capture and ...

Our sometimes mythical memory of the Underground Railroad, and why the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 propelled the country toward war. We're sorry, but something went ...

Erastus, who served in the state legislature in the 1850's, even introduced ... All the sites on the map have verified connections to the Underground Railroad, says the Michigan Freedom Trail.

This 1898 map by W.H. Siebert shows Underground ... the Underground Railroad helped people get to Chicago. After 1850, the Underground Railroad helped people pass through Chicago to Canada.