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The Second Underground Railroad – Middle Passage to Freedom
American history has often been written with a focus on the wrong heroes. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the history of race and slavery in America. We endlessly highlight Thomas Jefferson’s life, for example, but do not laud real heroes like John Brown. So it goes with the Second Underground Railroad. The first…
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