HistoryfromFortune2 weeks agoHow Trump erased the story of George Washington's slave, Ona Judge, who fled from Philadelphia to freedom | FortuneOna Judge escaped slavery from the Washingtons on May 21, 1796, slipping out of the President's House in Philadelphia to live freely in New Hampshire.
HistoryfromWorld History Encyclopedia177 years agoHenry Box BrownHenry Box Brown famously escaped slavery by mailing himself in a box to abolitionists in Philadelphia, becoming an influential anti-slavery speaker.