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Margaret Ward Fleeing to Freedom With Help From Watch, Her Mastiff, and Epictetus on True Freedom

Included in the Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad is why and how Margaret Ward spontaneou...

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Margaret Garner, Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child to Avoid Slavery, Inspiration for Beloved

Our author Levi Coffin remembers, “Perhaps no case” regarding “fugitive slaves attracted more ...

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Fleeing Female Slave Impersonates Planter, Husband Posing As Trusty Servant: William & Ellen Craft

In the 1850s, “William and Ellen Craft were slaves in the State of Georgia.” Their “desire to ...

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