Flight served as a crucial means of escaping slavery altogether, as Frederick Douglass had fled. Within the confines of bondage, it also offered a way to claim control. It secured, if only temporarily, a few moments of liberty.
Henry Prentiss, “The Fugitive’s Song,” 1845, lithograph on wove paper, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07616, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008661459/]
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