Please join us on Thursday, February 13 @ 7 PM at the Woodbridge Main Library as Dr. Linda J. Caldwell Epps highlights the struggles and triumphs experienced by those traveling the Underground Railroad to freedom.

 

From the beginning of African enslavement in America, attempts to escape from bondage were a frequent form of resistance though dangerous and strongly suppressed. What became known as the Underground Railroad was a network of meeting points, secret routes, and safe houses used by enslaved people of African descent to escape into northern states and Canada. The Underground Railroad was an interracial movement that caught the attention of the nation on the fundamental injustice of slavery. Boldly challenging America’s moral, legal, and economic foundation, galvanizing antislavery sentiment, and giving impetus to redeem American liberty – The Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.