This is another one of those posts - the entire series, actually - that you need to share a photo on Facebook and attach
the link to it like you did with the manifesto. Actually on the picture, I'd suggest putting "The House of Hudlin - Part I." (Mostly, that's just to make sure no one else snags your picture.)
You may need to adjust the caption a little. Something like this, though I'd suggest making the intro even more concise:
My success is built on an incredible history of heroes who have achieved great things in the face of oppression. This is the first of a series of posts about the Hudlin family.
I could not tell this story without the extraordinary efforts of my uncle, Richard Hudlin, who tirelessly researched our family history long before it was cool to search out one’s roots. Most of what I will be recounting is based on his research and writing.
Peter Hudlin’s Underground Railroad Station
by Dr. Richard A. Hudlin, Senior Fellow, Center for Historical Research
There is a considerable body of literature on the underground railroad, but to the best of my knowledge few sites have been documented in St. Louis. My great-great-great-great grandfather ran one of them.
Peter Hudlin was born in Virginia in 1828. His wife, a Cherokee born Nancy Jane Rutledge, was born in Kentucky in 1833. According to the Hudlin Family oral history and other sources, great-grandfather Peter Hudlin was a conductor on the underground railroad. For example, in 1976 Josephine Lockhart wrote:
"The human cargo would arrive at Peter’s home in crates. He would uncrate the run-away slaves, feed them and provide space for them to rest in his basement until nightfall. He would then recrate them and under cover of darkness, load the crates onto a wagon and drive across the river to one of the two major underground routes northward near Alton, Illinois."
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