Rev. Angelique Walker-Smith is senior associate for Pan-African and Orthodox Church engagement at Bread for the World and president of Historic Black Churches of Christian Churches Together (CCT).
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The Treacherous Journey to Freedom, Then and Now
11-14-2018
Fifteen fugitive slaves arriving in Philadelphia in July 1856. Engraving from William Still/Shutterstock.
When I landed at the airport in Brownsville, Texas, the Border Patrol was visibly present. I was suddenly reminded of my ancestors who were also greeted by “border patrol” while fleeing from the brutal chattel slavery in the southern states and making their way north – even all the way to Canada.