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Cleveland offers the historically curious a sample of the heart-pounding panic, anger, and tears of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in Canada

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Topic: Fugitive Slave Act

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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War

Be a fugitive slave for a night in “Escape on the Underground Railroad”

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Japan's weak currency means tourism

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