
On May 12th, 2017, Alice Hill and Drake Fischer went hiking in Yoseite and disappeared without a trace. Only two months later, in a deep…
One wrong word, one gesture out of place, one moment of hesitation, and the mask would crack. And when it did, there would be no…
Ellen moved toward the ticket office, weaving through the crowd. Behind her, William followed at the appropriate distance, navigating through clusters of travelers and workers.…

On September 19, 2016, 19-year-old Scott Romero went to Spanish Fork to film the ruins of the flooded town of Teasel. Exactly a year later,…
Or worse still, becoming an example, tortured publicly to terrify others who might dare to dream of freedom. Ellen took a long, slow breath and…
She was middle-aged, well-dressed, with the bearing of plantation wealth. Her eyes moved systematically across the platform, examining faces, searching for something or someone. When…
British audiences already sympathetic to abolitionism but often removed from its immediate realities heard firstirhand testimony that made slavery impossible to dismiss as an abstract…
Ellen’s light skin, the result of her enslavers assault on her mother, had been a mark of shame her entire life. Now it would become…
William emerged from the rear car, trunk on his shoulder, eyes scanning the platform. The plan was simple. purchase tickets for the morning train to…
This was why their former enslavers never stopped hunting them. This was why slave catchers came to Boston armed with federal warrants. Ellen and William…





