Underground Railroad Archives - Caroline Warfield

Abolition in New Orleans

September 28, 2023

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Welcome Rue Allyn, with the facts behind the fiction in her novel, The Creole Duchess What you may not know about ‘the Underground Railroad.’ 1. Just in case you are unfamiliar with the term, “The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses… in the United States used by enslaved African Americans…” […]

A Safer Route to Freedom

August 2, 2022

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Did you know… …that the Underground Railroad wasn’t the only route to freedom? Enslaved people in Louisiana and Texas were aware that Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Because what is now Texas had a growing number of immigrants from slave-holding states who took offense, it was one of the factors behind the Texas revolt of […]