Underground Railroad

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman could never have imagined what happened yesterday.An early photo of her was sold at auction for $161-thousand at the Swann…

In southern Dorchester County climate change is threatening one of the most important historic sites on the Lower Eastern Shore.It’s the property that saw…

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) - The newly designated Harriet Tubman national historic site in central New York has launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy a rare…

DOVER, Del. (AP) - Gov. Jack Markell is issuing a posthumous pardon for a free black man from Kent County who was convicted almost 170 years ago of…

A free black man convicted of helping slaves escape to freedom in the 19th century is to be posthumously pardoned by Delaware's governor.Ocea Thomas of…

BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland is celebrating the 150th anniversary marking the end of slavery in the state, a milestone that came after the Emancipation…

This evening the Seaford Town Council is set to vote on whether to put up a monument to former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman.Jim Blackwell, a…

President Obama is set to designate five national parks on Monday – two of them on Delmarva.One will mark the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad route in…