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In a digital archive of fugitive slave ads, a new portrait of slavery emerges

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imageEastman Johnson's 'A Ride for Liberty' (ca. 1862) depicts a family of slaves galloping for the safety of the North in the early morning light.Brooklyn Museum

Among the millions of people enslaved in the United States before 1865, hundreds of thousands attempted to flee from those who held them in bondage.

Some left temporarily to protest...

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