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Story of Black woman from Niagara who helped keep escaped slave free is included in new book

Winnifred Wesley

The extraordinary story of a Black man who escaped slavery in Kentucky by stealing his “owner’s” horse, and the Niagara woman who fought to keep him free when he made it to Canada, is among over 100 forgotten or never-recognized stories in a new Niagara Historical Society book.

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