A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories

" Back very scarred by the whip." Anyone who claims the Civil War was not about slavery is fooling himself.

Not as great time in our History to enslave other people and treat them as property. For thousands of years before us though slavery exist and it still does in other parts of the world although perhaps not as open and apparent as then. The quest for Freedom has always been there, no human being want others to run every aspect of their life and if that situation who wouldn't want to escape that ?

A very, very sad time in our history. And this still exists in some places in the world. And it does here but undercover and it is one of the reasons we CANNOT have illegal immigration. People traffick and sell others when they are unaccountable.