From 1820 to the dawn of the Civil War, as many as 150,000 slaves nationally fled across the Mason-Dixon Line in a sprint to freedom, aided by risk-taking “conductors,” McClellan said.
fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 slaves escaped from the South on a months-long slog through Illinois and on to freedom. On Tuesday, a task force of ...
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 slaves escaped from the South on a months-long slog through Illinois and on ...
Panel Advises Illinois Commemorate Its Role in Helping Slaves Escape the South In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as ...