Underground Railroad scholars Gerard Aching and Alice Baumgartner talk to us about the wait for justice. Aching, a professor at Cornell, studies northward movements of people seeking freedom, while Baumgartner studies a less known path of slaves who traveled south to Mexico to escape. In this conversation, we talk about the stories of freedom seekers and the many forms that waiting can take.

Links

• Gerard Aching
• Alice Baumgartner
• South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice Baumgartner
• "The Massacre at Gracias a Dios: Mobility and Violence on the Lower Rio Grande, 1821–1856" by Alice Baumgartner
• Journey to Freedom from the National Parks Service
• "A 'Freedom Church' Unearths Its Underground Railroad History"
• Voices on the Underground Railroad 
• Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba by Gerard Aching

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