Slaves seeking freedom fled not just north to Canada, but south to Florida.
American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
William Still was a clerk who secretly directed a vast network of abolitionists and safe houses from Philadelphia to Canada.
Kathryn Harris, former Services Director at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, is best known for her portrayals of Harriet Tubman.