The Chicago Tribune Underground Railroad series begins Sunday, putting spotlight on Illinois journeys of freedom seekers.
” series, among others. We wanted to spotlight Underground Railroad sites in Illinois, explore the histories surrounding them and provide travel details, while centering the stories of freedom seekers, formerly enslaved African Americans who escaped bondage in search of freedom in the United States and abroad.
Black history is American history. What started in 1619 — when the first Africans were brought to America for enslavement —is neither new or forgotten. In the foreword of “Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition,” Kevin Young writes, “Slavery wasn’t all that long ago.
This project aims to reframe the narrative, to amplify the names and efforts of those who lived it and steer away from the lens of white abolitionists. By centering freedom seekers, we see their agency. To reach that goal, we toured the locations, spoke to members of historical societies, docents of landmarked areas, academics, historians and descendants of the enslaved.
Freedom seekers did not gain freedom because of the Underground Railroad; but through their actions, the idea of the Underground Railroad network came to be. In “Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance,” author Cheryl Janifer LaRoche writes, “The Underground Railroad was a movement — once defined as an outgrowth of self-liberators’ and abolitionists’ efforts that was later defined as a mode of operation rather than as a structured organization.
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