An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

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In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated from North Carolina to Texas. There in the Capote Hills—a rural, sparse ...