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Untold Stories: Why enslaved Black people stayed in slaveholding states to help others find freedom

Untold Stories: Why enslaved Black people stayed in slaveholding states to help others find freedom
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What we won t know | South Florida Times

What we won t know | South Florida Times
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How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom

Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.

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The Uptown neighborhood no one knows about, revealed by author and river rat Macon Fry

Macon Fry sat on his deck on a spring afternoon, above the swirling waters of the Mississippi River. Fry is weathered, composed and about to share an amusing find stumbled upon while researching his book but he’s interrupted by the goat. Actually, two. Both goats have the run of the front porch and plank […]

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A view from the other side of the levee | Uptown Messenger

Macon Fry sat on his deck on a spring afternoon, above the swirling waters of the Mississippi River. Fry is weathered, composed and about to share an amusing find stumbled upon while researching his book but he’s interrupted by the goat. Actually, two. Both goats have the run of the front porch and plank […]

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