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Book Talk: Flee North
Join us as Scott Shane discusses his book, Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland. Learn the astonishing story of Thomas Smallwood, born into slavery near Washington, who bought his freedom, became a shoemaker, and began organizing mass escapes from slavery from Washington, Baltimore, and the surrounding counties. With the help of a younger white abolitionist, Charles Torrey, he took wagonloads of men, women, and children into Pennsylvania, urging them not to stop until they reached Canada. And Smallwood wrote about the escapes in satirical newspaper dispatches, an extraordinary work of journalism and literature in which he gave the underground railroad its name.
This event will take place at the William Paca House & Garden. Register here!
