Servants running off taking advantage of their master’s weakness, particularly when traveling through cities where certain people encourage such behavior. She meant abolitionists. She meant…
For 19 years, Ellen and William remained in England, building a life in exile, raising a family, working alongside British abolitionists to pressure America to…

The wine was still fermenting when Caitlyn Reed vanished from Blackwood Estate Winery in Napa Valley, California. The night of October 12th, 1996, fog rolled…
Her name lived on in the scholarship fund, in the memorial, in the winery that bore her name, and in the hearts of people who…
The first officer hesitated, clearly torn between duty and the potential embarrassment of a wealthy traveler collapsing on the dock. Finally, he stepped aside. Go…
Past the infrastructure of bondage that stretched across the South like iron veins. And then without ceremony or announcement, they crossed a line drawn on…

In the summer of 1992, Daniel and Paige Whitmer set off for a romantic rowing trip on the foggy coast of Maine. Locals remember seeing…
This time, she whispered to the screen, “I see you. ” And she meant it. They all would. Two days after Tenko’s arrest, a diver…
For myself and my servant, the agent wrote slowly, his movements automatic. He named the price. Ellen paid. Two tickets slid across the counter, two…
Not Emiline, not Viven. The one in the walls, the one we never named. The sun was barely up when Rachel returned to the chapel.…

