Episode 58: The Reverse Underground Railroad
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. - Un pódcast de John Fea
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Americans are undoubtedly familiar with the harrowing journey made by freedom seekers escaping enslavement that we have termed the "Underground Railroad." Sadly, historians are only now becoming equally aware of a "Reverse Underground Railroad," in which free black people from the North were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Historian Richard Bell tells the story of one such kidnapping in his new book Stolen, and joins John Fea to talk about it on this week's podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
