Exactly 168 years after a court found Samuel Burris guilty of helping fellow African-Americans escape #slavery, Delaware’s governor rendered history’s verdict by pardoning the Underground Railroad conductor. For years Samuel Burris helped his fellow African-Americans flee the bonds of slavery. As he entered a Dover, Delaware, courtroom on November 2, 1847, however, the Underground Railroad […]
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