In 1857, a 18 -year -old female slave, Lier Green, who was repeatedly and repeatedly raped by prostitution by her white owner, one of them James Nobel, was in a wooden sail breast wearing a dress, hood, and handing it as if it was a simple shipment on a steamed ship in Philadelphia from the Paltimore port.
To avoid suffocation and hunger, the beneficiaries covered it with a quilt and put a small pillow in the box for similar rest, along with some articles of clothes, a small amount of food, and a bottle of water, before closing the box, linked to a heavy rope.
Eighteen hours later, the steam reached the city of brotherly love, and the box was handed over to the family friend's house, where the young man recovered from her arduous journey.
Lear Green was one of about 100,000 of the unimaginable fugitive slaves, ready to face the horrific cruelty and evil leather, who escaped from slavery from southern Madbilum on ships at sea.
The preparation for their trips was what became known as the “Blue Highway”, which ran up and down on the eastern coast and enabled the slave people to escape in the event of a hideout below the floor.
They traveled under the winds filled with winds from Carolinas to the Gulf of Chisabik and Boston messages three decades before the Civil War.
The African Ocean carried to slavery, and the ocean was also a way to move them to freedom with the help of black sailors and workers in the waterfront, and sympathetic working -class eggs.
“Thousands of people escaped from slavery by sea-however, history books did not have much to say about them. Why are these dramatic tales of conspiracies, jam under floors, and escalating sails, and in the end they were rarely informed?” In his new book, prominent naval researcher Marcus Reidker asks, “The Ship of Freedom: The Non -Savior History of Slavery by Sea” (Viking).
The legendary railway underground had carried slavery fleeing in the depths of the south through swamps, siblings, forests and rivers.
But the blue highway, although it was less famous, was equally important in providing freedom for slaves.
“The maritime system was organized by people who are largely known to us – the poor who have harsh hands, often do not hold a name in the historical registry, and therefore he did not remember them, miserable land,” he writes Rediker.
“They acted courageous and murder stories. They escaped from slavery in brilliant ways. They led their work on sidewalks and ships, with the dynamic political economy of the ports cities, the story of freedom.”
Its angry owners were announced in Port City newspapers when one of the slaves fled, but the ships ships were expected to start their private ships, and the fugitives were able to find their way on board.
“Escape from slavery by sea was an art,” the author notes.
It requires planning, reading people and attitudes quickly. Some fugitives wear the clothes of the gentlemen, while some females disguised as a male shelter.
It was a possible hostility to understand the climate, the environment and the geography of the escape path-and this may mean the difference between life and death.
Rediker, a prize -winning professor in the History of the Atlantic History, wears his book in a series of unusual blue highway novels. Along with Green, there is Musa Robert, who escaped the first escape in 1834 at the age of 13 of his enslavement, the wild cotton plant John Joach.
He was repeatedly arrested and sent to his owners, Robe has provided at least ten attempts to escape for six years-an endless cycle of flying, restoring, horrific punishment, and reselling it.
“The terrorists who owned the slaves plowed hundreds of his back, and perhaps thousands of eyelashes; crushed his nails into a binding; he broke his nails on the anvil with a hammer; poured the tar on his head and put him on the fire,” the author writes. “They forced him to carry a stressful record chains, wear iron collars, and wander with heavy bars on his feet.”
In his last escape, Robert traveled 350 miles on the ground and the river, from Florida to Savana, Georgia, where he boarded a dense ship as a host. Finally on the beach in New York, he escaped from slave fishermen crawling on the waterfront and made him the Hudson River to Albani and then Brandland to Boston with a bonus fisherman.
A ship ascended to Liverpool, where he published a narration of its uncomfortable halls as the abolition of the death penalty.
William is still an African American death penalty specialist who had an interview with 930 hungry, patients and penny, and provided them with assistance and shelter between 1852 and 1860, and documenting their lives.
Some had scars that they were beating, a bullet fired at them, or suffering from horrific sexual assault, and “the cruelty that provokes publication.”
However, they had the power to counter death and escape torture. They gathered together to help each other. That was the power of slaves.
“These fugitives did not learn and the movement of canceling the entire American death penalty about the oppressive facts of the power of slaves,” he writes Rediker. Although these brave men and women often showed equal doses of flexibility and resistance, and eventually inspired both the movement and the nation.
