Slavery

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

This monument sits at the foot of a mountain from which legend says enslaved people jumped to their deaths.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.