Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump. The Electoral College could see a historic number of 'faithless electors.'. Some presidential electors are lobbying their counterparts in other states to reject their oaths to vote against Donald Trump when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 19. | AP Photo.
*William Still - Former slave who purchased his own freedom and then became a leader in the Underground Railroad. He also wrote a book preserving the stories of escaped slaves. *Frederick Douglass - African-American abolitionist and publisher of the North Star newspaper.
They make few distinctions between North and South, often imagining that slave patrollers and their barking dogs chased terrified runaways from Mississippi to Maine. Instead, the Underground Railroad deserves to be explained in terms of sectional differences and the coming of the Civil War. One way to grasp the Underground Railroad in its full political complexity is to look closely at the rise of abolitionism and the spread of free black vigilance committees during the 1830s.