{"id":8870,"date":"2022-01-22T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=198215"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:23:07","slug":"escaping-slavery-in-the-american-south","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/escaping-slavery-in-the-american-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping slavery in the American South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 22 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>How can we reconstruct the experiences of enslaved people? 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