Kansas Historical Society

TOPEKA—In commemoration of Black History Month, the Kansas Historical Society announced that a handwritten account of the last organized Underground Railroad journey through Kansas is available on Kansas Memory.

The author, Charles Frederick William Leonhardt, describes how he assisted fugitive slaves as they passed through eastern Kansas in June 1860.

The Underground Railroad was a loose network of antislavery sympathizers who helped fugitive slaves from southern slaveholding states escape north to Canada.

Leonhardt’s account is available at kansasmemory.org/item/221986. Kansas Memory is the Historical Society’s online digital archives.

 

 

 

The Kansas Historical Society is a state agency that operates the Kansas Museum of History, State Archives, Kansas State Capitol Visitor Center, and 16 state historic sites. For more information, visit kshs.org.