Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska (Blankenau) cooking Grant and the breaking of

Grant and the breaking of other generals

including the popular Animated Map

shortly after the death of sculptor Gutzon Borglum

with Mosquito Soldiers

Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska (Blankenau) cooking Grant and the breaking ofby Gail Shaffer Blankenau In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black womenCelia Grayson, age twenty two, and Eliza Grayson, age twentyescaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil