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The Southern Underground Railroad: The Women Who Mapped It
The enslaved Black women who mapped the Underground Railroad to Mexico — the intelligence network history forgot.
They never ran. But without them, nobody made it. In Episode 4 of our Southern Underground Railroad series, we uncover the Black women who built and ran a secret intelligence network across Texas and the Rio Grande, guiding thousands of freedom seekers south to freedom in Mexico.
You'll learn how Mexico's abolition of slavery — from the 1824 constitution to President Vicente Guerrero's 1829 decree — turned the Rio Grande into a freedom border, and why Texas's 1836 constitution…
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