Originally Posted by
coopah
Yes, the Underground Railroad did exist. There is a small town near where I grew up in PA that had a "stop" for escaped slaves. There are serious nonfiction books written on the subject if anyone's interested.
I also live in an area that had several safe places for slaves. One of my BFF grew up in a house that had a secret room in the basement used to hide slaves. Even though OH was not a slave state, we were so close to the Ohio River that slave hunters would cross into Ohio to catch runaways, so there are several safe places around where I live, including a small cave about a mile from my house.