The town of Edenton, North Carolina, provided slaves a means of escape with the Maritime Underground Railroad before Emancipation. On this underground network, people helped slaves travel by vessel from the southern part of the United States to the North and Canada. On most ships, blacks worked as stewards and cooks; they worked in the areas of the ship […]
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