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South to Freedom

Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
  • Alice L. Baumgartner
2020
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Featured Excerpts

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

    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
  • A map of Mexico.
    Book Excerpt

    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
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