Railroad routes in three counties of Maryland's Eastern Shore and Harriet Tubman's birthplace, was created by President Barack Obama under the Antiquities Act on March 25, 2013. Its sister park, the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, New York, was established on January 10, 2017, and focuses on the later years of Tubman's life as well as her involvement with the Underground Railroad and the abolition movement. In popular culture Inspirations for fiction The Underground Railroad is a 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead. It won the 2016 National Book Award and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Underground Railroad is a 2021 streaming television limited series, based on Whitehead's novel. Underground is an American television series that premiered in 2016, on WGN America. Literature David Walker (1829) Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Uncle Tom's Cabin Caroline Lee Hentz (1854) The Planter's Northern Bride William M. Mitchell (1860) The Under-Ground Railroad Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1869) Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman; (1896) Harriet Tubman, Moses of Her People Music Underground Railroad was a company created by Tupac Shakur, Big D the Impossible, Shock G, Pee Wee, Jeremy, Raw Fusion and Live Squad with the purpose of promote and help young black women and men with records allowing them to initiate and develop their musical careers. See also Angola, Florida Ausable Chasm, NY, home of the North Star Underground Railroad Museum Bilger's Rocks Caroline Quarlls (1824–1892), first known person to escape slavery through Wisconsin's Underground Railroad Escape to Sweden, an "underground railroad" during the Holocaust in Norway Fort Mose Historic State Park List of Underground Railroad sites Reverse Underground Railroad Slave codes Tilly Escape Timbuctoo, New York Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site near Dresden, Ontario Notes References Foner, Eric (2015). Gateway To Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. New York, New York: Norton. Forbes, Ella (1998) But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana Pennsylvania Resistance. Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers. Further reading Blackett, R.J.M. (2013). Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. (Stories about Thomas Garrett, a famous agent on the Underground Railroad) Jones, Leesa Bailey (January 7, 2020). "Leesa Jones Interview". State Archives of North Carolina (Oral History). Interviewed by Ellen Brooks. Washington, N.C. (Classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia). Public domain ebook at Project