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The lesser-known story of 100K courageous runaway slaves who fled the South via the ‘Blue Highway’

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

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