“The Underground Railroad has hundreds of dramatic stories of African Americans who decided to run from slavery into freedom. Linked together, these tell a national story: that these thousands of desperate, scared, tired, brave, tough, determined black men, women, and even children tore the nation apart. Not simply slavery, but slaves—black people!—caused the Civil War.”
— Scott Hancock discussing what W. E. B. Du Bois (in bio on John Brown) called the “Great Black Way,” communities of free black folk in Virginia who helped escaping slaves flee bondage and how their collective fight against slavery was a factor in the Civil War. See “Crossing Freedom’s Fault Line: The Underground Railroad and Recentering African Americans in Civil War Causality,” Civil War History 59:2 (2013), 205. (Via profkew)
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