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The Southern Underground Railroad: How The Word Traveled
You've heard the story: enslaved people in Texas didn't know they were free for two and a half years until Juneteenth. Felix Haywood, who was enslaved in Texas, answered that story in 1937: "Oh, we knowed what was goin' on in it all the time." This episode maps how the word actually moved. The grapevine telegraph — enslaved people's own name for a news network Booker T. Washington watched track Lincoln's election from a remote plantation, and that taught the map of freedom so well that the Creole rebels sailed a captured slave ship to free British soil in 1841. The sea road: Julius Scott's…
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