Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea and Bill Baker-who spent their

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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea and Bill Baker-who spent theirA definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad's long overlooked maritime origins, from a pre eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America now known as the Underground Railroad. Yet imagery of fugitives ushered clandestinely