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Richard Bell

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  • Four white men kidnapping Black man

    Kidnappers of Color Versus the Cause of Antislavery

    Thousands of free-born Black people in the North were kidnapped into slavery through networks that operated as a form of “Reverse Underground Railroad.”
    by Richard Bell, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on December 8, 2022
  • You Know About the Underground Railroad. But What About the Reverse Underground Railroad?

    Few people know about the movement to kidnap free black Americans and traffic them into slavery. It's time to change that.
    by Richard Bell via Washington Post on November 7, 2019
Book
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Richard Bell
2020

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