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March 30, 1849. At a secret location in Philadelphia, a box arrives, measuring 3 feet by 2 feet. Inside is fugitive slave Henry Brown.
Shipped from Richmond, Virginia, 27 hours earlier, he escaped with help from men on both sides of the racial divide.
CBN News met with Dr. Newby-Alexander in her office at Norfolk State University. You needed partners, you needed blacks and whites working jointly together to help people escape from slavery. People have seen the Underground Railroad as the first integrated resistance movement, she said.
The Underground Railroad
Anyone involved faced great risk. If caught, slaves were severely beaten and in some cases executed. Free blacks were sold into slavery.