"Eye-catching quilts and mysterious tunnels satisfy the human penchant for easily digestible history. Myths deliver us the heroes we crave, and submerge the horrific reality of slavery in a gilded haze of uplift. But in claiming to honor the history of African-Americans, they serve only to erase it in a new way."
In The New York Times, Fergus M. Bordewich tries to separate fact and fiction regarding the Underground Railroad.
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