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Check it out!
The Old Slave House represents one of only two
sites on the reverse Underground Railroad still standing in the country.
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Underground Railroad
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— Local U.G.R.R. Stories —
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Underground Railroad ran both ways in Southern Illinois
- HARRISBURG, Ill. (May 2, 1997) — In ante-bellum Southern Illinois
the Underground Railroad ran both ways. Both ran contrary to the law of
the land, but while one was a righteous crusade, the other was for
criminal profit.
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Underground Railroad went through [Saline] county
- HARRISBURG, Ill. (Dec. 2, 1996) — According to local tradition free
blacks living in the Pond Settlement southeast of what is now Carrier
Mills helped runaway slaves and indentured servants escape from the
saline works and the Old Slave House.
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— Kidnapping Rings — U.G.R.R. in Reverse —
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Black kidnappings in the southeastern Illinois
- Written for a seminar in Illinois History at Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale, this paper focuses on the "reverse" Underground Railroad
that operated along the Wabash and Ohio Valleys of Southern Illinois.
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— Underground Railroad Sites —
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The North Star: Tracing the Underground Railroad
- In the years before the Civil War, a secret network of people and places,
known as the Underground Railroad, helped slaves escape to freedom. Many
of the places and people associated with those events have never been
documented. This web site is dedicated to that purpose.
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