The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

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Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps ...

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This is the bizarre moment a car suddenly split in half to escape police during a chase in Tatarstan, Russia on April 23. Reports say the car was modified to split upon the push of a button. Police ...