June 20, 2022

In honor of Juneteenth Day, Roy Wood Jr. shared some interesting highlights regarding slaves who chose not to wait to be freed but escaped first, including the fellow who mailed himself to freedom and the husband and wife team where the woman went disguised as an injured white man.

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