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Escaping slavery in the American South

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Can You Tell if You've Been Captured Again?

Some of the adds had to be fairly vague in the details, because maybe that person didn't have a huge amount of identifying characteristics. Do we have any senseof how successful these were, having people found, and how likely you were to be able to make a successful escape? Sure. Ah, so i think it's widely accepted that most, ah, certainly not all, but but many escape attempts ended in failure. We know from the later, the antibellum narratives, for example, that many enslaved persons did successfully escape and reach places like canada, for example.

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