“San Antonio plays this role in collecting enslaved freedom seekers and trying to return them to bondage or auctioning them off.”
, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania who is considered a noted authority on the borderlands and slavery in Texas.“I have to give her a shout-out,” said Sandra Ogogor, a museum guide at SAAACAM. “We have been very blessed to have Dr. Hammack help us.”“We’ve been blessed here with a bunch of historians in Texas in the last 10 or 15 years,” Ott said.
Ott said their research has piqued the National Park Service’s interest, especially regarding the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. An old newspaper article found by Dr. Hammack, dating back to the mid-1850s, describes how Roda had fled her enslaver in D’Hanis, disguised as a man, only to be caught and brought to San Antonio.
Ott said to help tell more of that story, significant sites like Military Plaza could be eligible for federal historic designations and federal funding.
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