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SCOUT· 43%55m·2026-05-12·HistoryBFW Revisited: Running from Bondage in the American Revolution
Ben Franklin's World
She fled on horseback in the thick of war. Her six-year-old son rode with her. The white tailor at her side would pass, when anyone asked, as her husband. Her name was Sarah. She was one of tens of thousands of enslaved people who self-emancipated during the American Revolution, and one of the many women earlier…
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