The Mexican 'underground railroad'
by editors@theworld.org (Jeff Lunden) from The World: Latest Stories on (#74J11)
A new musical called "Mexodus" tells a lesser-known story of an "underground railroad" of sorts - from the US across the Rio Grande into Mexico. An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 enslaved people found refuge in Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1829 (before the US Civil War). Jeff Lunden went to the show and has this report.