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The Underground Railroad’s Route Through Appalachia, This West Virginia Morning
On this West Virginia Morning, not much has been known about Appalachia’s contributions to the Underground Railroad – until now.
Before the Civil War, slaves escaped to the free north through the underground railroad. Cicero Fain is a historian at Marshall University documenting the region’s Black history through his Appalachian Freedom Heritage Initiative. Fain spoke with Inside Appalachia’s Mason Adams about documenting dozens of previously unknown underground railroad sites throughout our region.
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