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5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

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Teaches fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad, separating myth from reality. David Blight is a Pulitzer and Bancroft prize-winning historian of the era, and this full Yale course is grounded in primary sources and current scholarship.

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Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 5: Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad, separating myth from reality.

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Part of The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight