Larry McClellan stands next to a historical marker at the former site of the Jan and Aagje Ton Farm during a walking and bus tour of Illinois Underground Railroad sites around the Beaubien Woods area Oct. 29, 2022, in Chicago.
“What became strikingly clear to me is that we really have to reframe the conversation,” he said. “For the 180 years we’ve been talking about the Underground Railroad, the focus has been on the activities of the people who were helping. "Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois" by Larry McClellan is published by Southern Illinois University Press.
“Of course, fugitive slaves were coming through here, and that was who they were helping, but who were these interesting abolitionists?” It also was an opportunity to shed new light on what had been a long-established storyline in Chicago.
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