Garrett was an Underground Railroad Conductor. by Anne Neborak Anne Neborak -- 21st Century Media Robert Seeley of Havertown wants his ancestor,Thomas Garrett to be pardoned posthumously.

The transportation network for escaped slaves during the mid-1800s passed right through Delaware, a 95-mile trail spanning the first state. Delaware was the last slave state along the trail for many, ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground Railroad back to the writings of the little-known 19th century abolitionist Thomas Smallwood.