People in America love to believe in freedom, even though it isn’t free. It never was. Not even for those who emblazon it across their cars, patios, and homes. The history of freedom is much older than plastic flags and banners. For those who fled north, the color of their skin united them. Some knew only the plantations they’d been born on, others memorized the trails they’d been traded along. A few even claimed to remember the Passage. All who ran did so in search of freedom. They believed they fled their chains. Some brought new ones with them. Shackled to the god of their captors, they
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