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Alice L. Baumgartner

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When the Enslaved Went South

How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.

by Alice L. Baumgartner via The New Yorker on November 19, 2020

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

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Wooden cross in the Eli Jackson Methodist Church cemetery in San Juan, Texas.

When Slaves Fled to Mexico

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

by David S. Reynolds via New York Review of Books on May 13, 2021

Henry Arthur McArdle’s The Battle of San Jacinto (1895), depicting the final battle of the Texas Revolution of 1836.

The Long American Counter-Revolution

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on December 8, 2022

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