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How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom

  • Written by Viola Franziska Müller, Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in history, University of Bonn
How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedomBlack fugitives fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad,Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression.

Yet, the story is incomplete.

What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved people who fled Southern slavery before the 186...

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