“Good Lord, what are you doing in Richmond? Does your master know you’re here?” Other people on the platform were beginning to turn, drawn by…
The sound felt foreign in her throat, but it would have to become natural. Her life depended on it. They had 3 days to perfect…

In 2015, a 19-year-old college applicant requested her birth certificate for a scholarship application and discovered something impossible. The document showed her birth date as…
They maintained connections with activists in America following the escalating crisis that would eventually erupt into civil war. And when that war finally ended, slavery,…
If he stopped and denied being this Ned, she might call for authorities to verify his identity. If Ellen tried to intervene, Ellen had reached…
Ellen looked at the calendar on the wall, counting the hours. 72 hours until the most dangerous performance of her life began. 72 hours until…

In March 2009, a 20-year-old woman stood beside a hospital bed holding the hand of the man she called dad. He was the only family…
The image of Ellen dressed as a gentleman became iconic, reproduced in engravings and illustrations that circulated through abolitionist networks. Visual representations of her disguise…
step forward and claim him, risking exposure, or step back and let him be taken, saving herself, but losing everything that mattered. The train rolled…
Now those same hands would have to play a role he had spent his life resisting. The subservient servant bowing and scraping to someone pretending…





