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# 18 - Jordan, age 14, who fled from his enslavers in 1810

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# 17 The Deeds, Unbound project

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# 16 Another door is opened, but you can’t hide with white folks. Let’s consider the Reverend Ellingwood and Bath, Maine

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# 15 How did Jackson learn to read? A new possibility has emerged (too late for the book!):

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# 14: Impudence

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# 13 The Peripatetic life of William Grimes, or the unsettled terrors of fugitivity in two gifs

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# 12: Teaching the Rhetoric of Fugitivity with annotated advertisements for freedom seekers

Teaching about fugitivity with advertisements for freedom seekers - a [messy] handout

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# 11: Hiding behind a newspaper: Jesse Howell’s escape in 1859

Jesse Howell hid in plain sight - behind newsprint, that is.

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# 10: Maroonage and advertisement metadata

Runaway advertisements tell tremendous, terrible stories each time. But what kind of stories can they tell en masse? I think more big data analysis of them could reveal incredible information that would cross reference geography and temporality to reveal freedom flights and patterns of petite marronage versus grande marronage...... See my latest installment of The Runaway Chronicles hashtag#clemsonresearch hashtag#fugitivity hashtag#freedomseekers hashtag#marronage hashtag#digitalhistory

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# 9: Charles W. Chesnutt, the floating T, and his father’s lucky break - a story of orthographic liberation after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850