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WILLIAM ANDERSON HALL (born c. 1820), carpenter, fugitive from slavery, author
'Fleeing from enslavement, William was often helped by 'friends', a euphemism for the network of free African Americans and others who were sympathetic to those seeking to escape slavery and who made up the Underground Railroad. However, William's journey was far from straightforward. He was caught and imprisoned on at least two occasions, suffered beatings and betrayal and found that life in the free states of the North could be as precarious as in the South. It was only when William reached Canada that his 'old feelings of dread' left him.' -- Phil Okwedy
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-HALL-AND-1820

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