Enslaved people used the B&O Railroad as part of the Underground Railroad. Henry Box Brown escaped enslavement by shipping himself inside a wooden crate. Ellen Craft disguised herself as a white man travelling with her male "slave," who was in reality her husband. The B&O museum has a fabulous new exhibit, The Underground Railroad: Freedom Seekers on the B&O Railroad, that you can go visit today.
The Underground Railroad and the B&O Railroad
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