The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway follows routes in a landscape virtually unchanged since Harriet Tubman’s time, tracing the one hundred twenty-five-mile paths braved by enslaved people on harrowing journeys north toward freedom. Along farmsteads, churches, courthouses, waterways, and forests, men and women—black and white, enslaved and free—risked their lives and livelihoods amid fear and danger as they secretly challenged slavery. It includes places where Tubman spent her early days laboring, where she suffered an injury so severe she nearly died, waterways that could aid or hinder escape, and forests where she led others fleeing in darkness under threat of recapture or death.