Legend Says His Daring Escape Created The Underground Railroad
Black History Year
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🗓️ 6 September 2025
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He swam as hard as he could, his enslaver chasing him in a boat. “I’ve got him now,” the oppressor thought. Then his target vanished into thin air. “Where the hell did he go?”
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| 0:30.0 | He swam as hard as he could, his enslaver chasing him in a boat. |
| 0:34.2 | I've got him now, the oppressor thought. |
| 0:36.8 | Then his target vanished into thin air. |
| 0:40.8 | Where the hell did he go? |
| 0:43.5 | I'm Len with Push Black, and this is too many black history. |
| 0:47.4 | What You Didn't Learn in school. In 1831, a white enslaveer in Kentucky was looking everywhere for a man he considered his property, Tice Davids. |
| 1:07.7 | But Davis wouldn't be enslaved much longer. |
| 1:11.2 | Tice David's freedom destination was Ohio, across the Ohio River. |
| 1:16.8 | His enslaver trailed him in a boat as David swam. |
| 1:21.0 | He saw David scramble ashore, but lost sight of him. |
| 1:24.5 | To his astonishment, Davids had vanished. Tice David's enslaver went home furious and |
| 1:31.7 | empty-handed. According to folklore, some would say that David's must have gone off on an underground |
| 1:38.9 | railroad. This sentence would become a legend. We don't know what became a legend. |
| 2:06.1 | We don't know what became of Tice Davids, but his daring escape is said to have inspired the name of the Underground Railroad. |
| 2:15.6 | Although it wasn't literally a railroad, the image of the Underground Railroad may have inspired many enslaved people to risk their lives for freedom. |
| 2:21.6 | Without Tice Davids, there might not have been the legend of the Underground Railroad. |
| 2:27.9 | Stories like this have power because they can create legends that give others the courage to resist. |
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