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This 1897 studio portrait of a mother and daughter looks serene until you see their eyes !!! The basement of the Boston Historical Society smelled…

She searched Boston city directories for Sarah Cunningham and found an address in Cambridge, 47 Brattle Street. The notation listed her occupation as teacher, a…

The carriage took them through Baltimore’s empty streets. The city at this hour belonged to workers and night watchmen, to people whose lives operated in…

A couple traveling first class, displaying all the markers of wealth and status, could cross five states undetected simply because observers could not imagine that…

This was the truth I had been searching for my entire life without knowing it. I started meeting with the pastor twice a week. I…

A white man who looks like he belongs in first class. The audacity of it was breathtaking. Ellen’s light skin, the result of her enslavers…

He was younger than Ellen expected, perhaps in his late 20s, with sharp eyes that seemed to catalog every detail. When Ellen approached, he looked…

Not an official demanding papers, but a woman whose polite questions would cut closer to the truth than any harbor master’s interrogation. A woman who…

A merchant reading a newspaper. A young couple speaking quietly. An older man who appeared to be sleeping. No one paid her any attention. She…