Catherine Rampell: Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad

[Dennis Donovan]

Catherine Rampell
‪@crampell.bsky.social‬
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

April 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3lm5xb2olis2o

[malaise]

1. Eff them- they cannot erase history

Eff them every which way

[johnnyfins]

3. WELL said.

These traitors may as well be wearing the grey uniforms of the confederacy.

[spanone]

5. K&R

[Grins]

2. "O'Brian" would be envious. NM

[underpants]

4. Ridiculous. The Underground Railroad to Mexico - scrub thus 😡

Baumgartner's groundbreaking new book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War, was published late last year. She says Mexico in the 19th century is often regarded as "a place defined by poverty and political instability and violence" — and is rarely given credit for its role in providing a safe haven for runaway slaves.

"This history is to me most surprising because it shows us the side of Mexico as a place that actually was contributing to global debates about slavery and freedom," Baumgartner says.

From the 1830s up to emancipation, she estimates 3,000 to 5,000 enslaved people fled south and crossed over to free Mexican soil. That is far fewer than the estimated 30,000 to 100,000 enslaved people who crossed the Mason-Dixon line to reach free northern states and Canada.

Enslaved sailors and stowaways from New Orleans and Galveston, Texas, jumped ship in Mexican ports. Slaves drove wagons of cotton to market in Brownsville, Texas, and then slipped across the muddy river to Matamoros, Mexico. But their main mode of transportation was on horseback traversing the vast, feral stretches of South Texas down to the border.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/28/971325620/a-chapter-in-u-s-history-often-ignored-the-flight-of-runaway-slaves-to-mexico

[Walleye]

6. I take this personally once again they are attacking my state as if we don't exist. The underground railroad came right

Through delaware. I have seen one of the safe houses down in Odessa. We have a Harriet Tubman park in Wilmington. These assholes are picking on one of our own, and why??

[Solly Mack]

7. Fuck that noise.

[3catwoman3]

8. Shameful and despicable.

This feels so USSR.

[Dem4life1970]

9. Very, very stupid...

The internet is now a thing. While they try to whitewash history, every 3rd Grade child can google the truth.

[Nevilledog]

10. No paywall link

https://archive.li/op9bx

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Let's see. I think Harriet Tubman was about freedom.

That is a problem for NAZI stooges.