{"id":66046,"date":"2026-02-11T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/hidden-passage-linked-to-underground-railroad-found-in-new-york-museum\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:56:33","slug":"hidden-passage-linked-to-underground-railroad-found-in-new-york-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/hidden-passage-linked-to-underground-railroad-found-in-new-york-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small opening cut into floor at Merchant\u2019s House Museum indicates site was probably used as \u2018safe house\u2019, experts say<\/p>\n<p>A landmark house in Manhattan preserved as a museum to New York\u2019s 19th-century history has revealed an even more intriguing secret: its previously unknown status as a refuge for people who escaped slavery before and during the civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The Merchant\u2019s House Museum\u2019s link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/01\/canada-underground-railroad\">Underground Railroad<\/a>, a network of abolitionists who secured the safe passage of enslaved people to freedom, was discovered when archaeologists looked beneath the drawers of a built-in dresser in the wall of a hallway leading to bedrooms on the building\u2019s second floor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/11\/new-york-museum-underground-railroad-hidden-passage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small opening cut into floor at Merchant\u2019s House Museum indicates site was probably used as \u2018safe house\u2019, experts say A landmark house in Manhattan preserved as a museum to New York\u2019s 19th-century history has revealed an even more intriguing secret: its previously unknown status as a refuge for people who escaped slavery before and during &#8230; <a title=\"Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/hidden-passage-linked-to-underground-railroad-found-in-new-york-museum\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}