Sentences with phrase «runaway slaves hiding»
The Great Dismal Swamp, near the city's southwest corner, carries a legacy of runaway slaves hiding for freedom.
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It is believed that the pattern functioned as breathing holes for runaway slaves hiding under the floor, awaiting safe transport north.
But the pattern of the holes is based on a Congolese cosmological symbol and copied from breathing holes used by runaway slaves hiding beneath a church in Savannah.
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He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.
When a southern farm girl finds evidence that a runaway slave is hiding on her property, she decides to help by providing food and shelter.
When Stephen brings Charlotte into Mammoth Cave for privacy as he teaches her to read, Charlotte finds a safe place to hide runaway slaves from the slave catchers and their dogs.
It is believed that the drilled pattern functioned as breathing holes for runaway slaves who, hiding under the floor, awaited safe transport north,» explains artist Nari Ward.