Post Office introduces Underground Railroad stamps at Maryland Park.

The U.S. Postal Service marked the resilience and ingenuity of 10 men and women who helped guide enslaved people to freedom as part of the Underground Railroad.

A dedication ceremony for the series of stamps was held on March 9 at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek Maryland. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safehouses in use before the Civil War.

"For many enslaved African Americans, the Underground Railroad was their only hope to escape the brutality of slavery." said Ronald A Stronman, a member of the post office's Board of Governors. "The Underground Railroad demonstrated the power of collective action and solidarity in achieving social change, even when the odds seemed insurmountable."

Harriet Tubman	Thomas Garrett	William Still
Harriet Jacobs	Jermain Loguen	Catherine Coffin
Lewis Hayden	Frederick Douglass	William Lambert
Laura Haviland

Guests at the event included descendants of some of the people honored on the stamps.