{"id":572,"date":"2022-09-19T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:07:54","slug":"escape-with-infant-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/escape-with-infant-underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape With An Infant On The Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This excerpt from \u201cThe Underground Railroad\u201d by William Still documents the escape of a party of eight fugitives who traveled together from Maryland to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their owners made threats to sell them to Georgia. As the book wryly notes, they thought it wise to leave their masters with \u201cas few as possible to be troubled with selling\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three of the party were a young married couple with an eight-month-old baby. It was quite rare for fugitives to be able to travel with such a young child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Any headings and italicized text in the excerpt below were added by the website editor. The rest is nearly verbatim from the book. I changed the order of some sections to make the narrative easier to follow. There are also some changes to the punctuation<\/em>.]<\/p>\n\n\n

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