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The Painful, Cutting and Brilliant Letters Black People Wrote To Their Former Enslavers

The letters show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families.

by Jourdon Anderson, Vilet Lester, Gillian Brockell, Annie Davis, Jermain Wesley Loguen, Frederick Douglass via Retropolis on March 13, 2022

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Abolitionist broadside from 1854 calling out the fugitive slave bill commissioner

An Angry Mob Broke Into A Jail Looking For A Black Man—Then Freed Him

How Oct. 1 came to be celebrated as “Jerry Rescue Day” in abolitionist Syracuse.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on October 1, 2022

In a cotton field at night, a Black man scouts with a lantern, while a black woman passes a book to two fleeing men.

The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies

Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.

by Jesse Olsavsky via Hammer & Hope on October 31, 2025

The John Rankin House, an original stop on the Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad Was the Ultimate Conspiracy to Southern Enslavers

And justified the most extreme responses.

by Colin Dickey via Atlas Obscura on July 11, 2023

Pro-choice protest outside Supreme Court

The Reconstruction Amendments Matter When Considering Abortion Rights

The cruelty of enslavers when it came to reproduction and families shaped the 13th and 14th Amendments.

by Peggy Cooper Davis via Made By History on May 3, 2022

A painting entitled Our Town, with Black children playing on a suburban street

The Truth About Black Freedom

This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means.

by Daina Ramey Berry via The Atlantic on June 18, 2021

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