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Lear Green: Freedom in a Wooden Crate

on March 14, 2021August 18, 2025 By Pulp Culture 1 Comment

The crate was small, just big enough for one young woman to curl inside. For fifteen hours it rocked in the dark belly of a ship leaving Baltimore, carrying not cargo but a life—and a gamble for freedom. Inside was Lear Green. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor at night. In 1857, these docks were the starting point [...]

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