The Underground Railroad Was Only One Path To Freedom. Going Further South Was Another
Black History Year
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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Summary
To the North lay freedom, or so many believed. Starvation, exposure to the elements, and especially the threat of recapture still hung heavy over the heads of those who had escaped bondage. But what about escaping even further south?
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| 0:30.4 | To the north lay freedom, or so many believed. Starvation, exposure to the elements, and especially the threat of recapture still |
| 0:39.5 | hung heavy over the heads of those who had escaped bondage. But what about escaping even |
| 0:46.5 | further south? This is Two-Minute Black History, what you didn't Learn in School. |
| 1:05.5 | History is filled with the stories of people who escape their enslavers by fleeing to the north. The Underground Railroad is so well known that hundreds of books have been written |
| 1:10.6 | about the paths and people behind it. However, the formerly-needed The Underground Railroad is so well known that hundreds of books have been written about |
| 1:10.9 | the paths and people behind it. |
| 1:13.5 | However, the formerly enslaved didn't just escape to the north. |
| 1:19.0 | Many went south. |
| 1:20.9 | The journey northward was arrowing and oftentimes carried too great a risk for those trying |
| 1:26.2 | to escape, especially if they were in the deep |
| 1:29.0 | south. Help and escape came from unlikely sources, but when our ancestors wanted their freedom, |
| 1:36.1 | they used their ingenuity to get it. Still a Spanish colony at the time, Florida offered freedom and Spanish citizenship. |
| 1:46.7 | The enslaved from the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, who feared the long journey north, |
| 1:51.6 | found hope in Spanish, Florida. |
| 1:54.4 | Many settled in Cape Florida, while others sought to leave the United States entirely. |
| 2:01.6 | Once they were free Spanish citizens, some Black Seminoles awaited passage to the British |
| 2:08.6 | colonies in the Bahamas. They faced possible recapture in pirates, but once there, they found |
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