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| | Volume collects lost stories of underground railroad |
 | | CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Long-lost stories about one of the most complex, secretive, dangerous and successful collaborations among fl freemen, slaves and white abolitionists are told in a new book, “Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad” (Ivan R. Dee). |
 | | Throughout the time that abolitionists – including their wives and often children – engaged in Underground Railroad activities, slavery was legal in the United States, and they and other abolitionists, as well as the runaway slaves, were in violation of state and federal laws. |
 | | The memoirs were published in the 1870s, but were largely forgotten “in part because of their daunting length,” said George Hendrick, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois. |
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