Many Underground Railroad agents in Jackson, Michigan risked their lives to lodge and transport fugitives passing through their county to Canada. What were agen

Though living far north of the Mason-Dixon line, many mid-nineteenth-century citizens of Michigan rose up to protest the moral offense of slavery; they publishe

The history of Jackson County brims with colorful characters and noteworthy episodes nearly lost to time. Jackson abolitionists used their barns, houses and hid