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Wallace Turnage - The Slave Who Freed Himself
Many enslaved African Americans in the United States escaped bondage...
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Anna Maria Weems - The Girl Who Became a Boy to Escape Slavery
Anna Maria Weems (circa 1840 to circa 1863) was an enslaved African...
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Slave Hunters in Boston - The Failed Attempt to Capture Ellen & William Craft
In 1848, Ellen and William Craft escaped from slavery in Georgia...
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Solomon Northup - 12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup (circa 1807/1808 to circa 1857/1864) was a free-born...
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The Immortal Ten - The Daring Rescue of John Doy
The Immortal Ten were a group of abolitionists from Kansas Territory...
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Eyewitness Accounts of WWII's Eastern Front
The Eastern Front (1941-5), called the Western Front or Great Patriotic...
