A project, involving Lancaster University, that will see some of Lancaster's 'runaway slaves' memorialised in the city’s Judges' Lodgings museum, has been awarded funding to support school workshops, teacher training and an exhibition.The Judges’ Lod
In the book, “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War,” historian Alice Baumgartner examines the U.S. and Mexico’s complicated ties to slavery and how Mexico’s stance on slavery had a major influence on politics to the North.