One of the subjects the book goes into is the numerable reasons that would cause a slave to run away and where they would try to go. Of these two, the latter surprised me but makes perfect sense after reading it. The majority of slaves who made it to the North came “… from the states that bordered on free soil [as it] proved far easier than from the cotton kingdom of the Lower South,” (Foner 16). Obviously, it was easier to abscond to the North when you are only a few dozen miles away, like in Maryland or Virginia. As a result, those in the Lower South usually tried to escape to New Orleans or Mobile to lose themselves in the sizeable free black population. …show more content…
Although many of these subjects expanded on previously known ideas, there was a lot I never knew. Besides interesting yet less impactful things like the escape of Henry “Box” Brown, I learned more about the hidden history of the Underground Railroad and the events and people that helped to aid the plight of the American