enslaved
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History textbooks often include the story of the Underground Railroad, an organized network of secret routes, places and people that guided enslaved populations from the South to abolitionist Northern states.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The white women in bonnets still make appearances, but so do performers like Stephen Seals, who portrays James Armistead Lafayette, an enslaved Virginian turned revolutionary spy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
In the South, formerly enslaved Black Southerners assembled for the first time ever, exercising rights they could not have while enslaved.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
When the Revolution began in 1775, 450,000 enslaved people lived in British North America, the vast majority in the Southern colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Perhaps the most famous enslaved man in America at the time, William Lee was not granted the most basic recognition of his birth or death.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
