![]() ![]() She escapes along the tracks and emerges days later, accepting a ride from a wagon driver headed west. Ridgeway captures Cora, who leads him to the abandoned railroad station. The brothers, however, changed their minds and went back. The Valentine farm is attacked by a group of white vigilantes who shoot and kill Royal but not before he urges Cora to escape through an abandoned branch of the underground railroad. Harriet Tubman: Underground Railroad On September 17, 1849, Harriet, Ben and Henry escaped their Maryland plantation. Cora is in love with Royal but never tells him. Royal takes her to the Valentine farm in Indiana, where she lives for months despite Royal’s propositions that they marry and move to Canada. A freeborn black man named Royal rescues her from Ridgeway in Tennessee. She hides for months in an attic before Ridgeway captures her. When the slave catcher Ridgeway captures Caesar, Cora escapes alone to North Carolina. ![]() “Bessie” works first as a maid for a white family, then as an actor in museum displays that depict slave life. Cora and Caesar travel the underground railroad to South Carolina, where Cora is given forged papers identifying her as a freewoman named Bessie Carpenter. During their escape, a white boy tries to capture Cora, and she hits him repeatedly on the head with a rock, causing his death and making her wanted for murder. Caesar, another Randall slave, recognizes these qualities and persuades her to run away with him. Her mother runs away when Cora is 10 or 11 years old, leaving her to fend for herself and become fiercely resilient and independent. Cora is born a slave on the Randall plantation in Georgia. ![]()
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