The local trade in slaves appears to be anything but flourishing, if we judge from some of the latest authentic reports. We find a healthy negro, thirty-six years of age, going off at Salisbury ...

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She said she was drawn to South Texas after reading an article about the Underground Railroad and a cemetery that holds the remains of a family that helped slaves cross from what is now Pharr ...

Walker said many escaped slaves arrived in Massachusetts by boat ... opposite of the cemetery of South Sudbury on Lowell Road,” according to the American Antiquarian Society.