NPS Ranger Highlights Maritime Routes, Boston Flashpoints in Underground Railroad Talk
National Park Service ranger Sean Quigley told a Chelsea audience that the Underground Railroad included maritime escape routes, detailed Boston-era examples and the 1854 Anthony Burns case that galvanized local resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Sean Quigley, a National Park Service ranger who works with the Boston African American National Historic Site, told a Chelsea Black History Month audience that the Underground Railroad was a broad, often maritime network that relied on local knowledge, sympathetic mariners and dramatic acts of courage.
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