![]() ![]() The major towns I will be visiting include Harpers Ferry, Frederick, Catoctin Furnace, Hagerstown, and Gettysburg. I will be walking just under 100 miles crossing parts of four counties nearest to the Mason-Dixon Line in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. ![]() On this walk, I hope to learn about the Black communities closest to the line of freedom before and after the Civil War. The title derives from a Philadelphia mural of the same name featuring poet Ursula Rucker shouting “We Still Here” through a bullhorn representing Black Americans’ raised voices. They served an admirable purpose of organizing the Underground Railroad – that mysterious, formidable enemy of slavocracy – with an uncompromising commitment to freedom.” Hippocrene Guide to The Underground RailroadĪp– I will be embarking on a new Walk to Freedom journey titled “We Still Here” from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to Gettysburg, Pennsylvan on May 17. The goal of the walk is to reflect and meditate on two core American values – Justice and Freedom in spaces where these historic values grapple with the contradiction of slavery. ![]() “This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of those brave souls who represented the morality of antebellum America. In the words of historian Charles Blockson: ![]()
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