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Public Interest

May 19, 2000

Cry Freedom

Dicta: By Paul O'Brien Browsing through some very old newspapers, I came across an article from 1860. A long, front-page story told of a young boy, a slave from Mississippi, who had been found nearly drowned on a river bank in Ohio. He and his mother had escaped the plantation on the underground railway with a dozen or so others, but before reaching Toledo - where a great-aunt was said to hold a job - they had met disaster on a flimsy raft.


         By Paul O'Brien
        
         Browsing through some very old newspapers, I came across an article from 1860. A long, front-page story told of a young boy, a slave from Mississippi, who had been found nearly drowned on a river bank in Ohio. He and his mother had escaped the plantation on the underground railway with a do...

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