For over 50 years, Tubman called New York’s Finger Lakes region home, a place where she lived, worked, worshiped, and continued her fight for freedom. New York is commemorating the legacy of freedom ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

ALBANY — Few walking by at the Albany Rural Cemetery would have known they were in the presence of Civil War heroes. But for decades in Albany, Harriet and Stephen Myers were laid to rest without a ...

The New Brighton Historical Society will hold its Fourth Biennial Underground Railroad Weekend on Sept. 26 and 27. Historian Eddie Murphy will give a special presentation, “Journeying with Harriet ...