Listen "Episode 8: Phoebe McIntosh Banks Recalls the Escape to Kansas"
Episode Synopsis
This episode tells the story recalled by Phoebe Banks about the journey that her family made to Kansas during the Civil War with hundreds of people in the Creek Nation. She was only a small girl, and she recalled the harrowing journey she and other enslaved people from the Creek Nation made during that trip. This triip made under the leadership of Chief Opotholeyahola is sometimes referre to as "The Trail of Blood
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