Virtual Talk: “Stolen” with Richard Bell

Imagine this: a Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the Antebellum South. It happened in Philadelphia.  In 1825, five young, free black boys fell into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. They were lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay.  Instead, they met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drove them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys formed a tight brotherhood as they struggled to free themselves and find their way home. This  heartbreaking account reveals the atrocities of slavery, the fragility of freedom, and the power of the human spirit to resist.

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