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'''[[National Underground Railroad Freedom Center]]'''<br>50 East Freedom Way<br>Cincinnati, Ohio 45202<br>Telephone: 513-333-7500 or toll free 877-648-4838<br>Email: [http://www.freedomcenter.org/contact-us Contact Us] form<br>Website: [http://www.freedomcenter.org/ National Underground Railroad Freedom Center]<br>

:The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is more a museum (few original manuscripts) than an archive. However, it has a [https://www.familysearch.org/en/centers/about FamilySearch center] for research help and Ancestry.com access on the Internet. They tell the history of the guides, safe houses, and transportation network used to smuggle runaway enslaved African Americans out of the slave states to freedom in the North before the American Civil War. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center reveals stories about freedom’s heroes: the men, women and children who challenge inequities to pursue greater freedom for their brothers and sisters.<ref>[http://www.freedomcenter.org/enabling-freedom Enabling Freedom] in ''National Underground Railroad Freedom Center'' (accessed 30 May 2016).</ref><br><br>