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American History

Bradshaw3

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1. A brilliant, courageous woman

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 05:13 PM

Mar 2019

I recently read a book about the underground railroad and what she did was amazing. She used the southerners' racism against them, pretending to be an ignorant field hand so well they wouldn't even check the wagon she was driving that held escapees. And she went back down south again and again to do it.

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