Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with Me Richard McClain Smith, where
Speaker 1: for the weeks in between episodes, we look at the
Speaker 1: stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it
Speaker 1: into the show. In last week's episode, pre Sense, young
Speaker 1: couple Lisa and Andy Wyrick were haunted by the prospect
Speaker 1: that their daughter had been cursed with the ability to
Speaker 1: see people who had long since died. This story was
Speaker 1: used as the basis for a two thousand and thirteen
Speaker 1: film titled, rather paradoxically, The Haunting in Connecticut two Ghosts
Speaker 1: of Georgia, where in real life no specific reason was
Speaker 1: ever given for the apparitions that were apparently witnessed at
Speaker 1: the Wyrick property, the film took a decidedly different attact.
Speaker 1: Rather than a random selection of previous local residents, the
Speaker 1: spirits were taken to be former slaves who had tried
Speaker 1: to escape the region, only to be murdered by the
Speaker 1: man who had promised to help them. The story draws
Speaker 1: heavily on the history of the Underground Railroad, a network
Speaker 1: of secret routes and safe houses established in the late
Speaker 1: eighteenth century to help slaves escape the South and seek
Speaker 1: a better life in the Free States of the North,
Speaker 1: as well as in Mexico and Canada. This incredible organization,
Speaker 1: led by free born African Americans as well as former
Speaker 1: slaves such as Harriet Tubman and other abolitionists such as
Speaker 1: Levi Coffin, is credited with helping over a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: individuals gain their freedom. The Underground Railroad was so called
Speaker 1: partly as a reference to the secrecy of the organization,
Speaker 1: but also because its secrecy was maintained by the use
Speaker 1: of code words such as conductors, stations, and station masters
Speaker 1: to refer to the railroad's members and safe locations. There
Speaker 1: is little doubt that Georgia was a slave state. However,
Speaker 1: anyone trying to escape the region was unlikely to have
Speaker 1: been helped by the Underground Railroad, the reason being it
Speaker 1: was simply too dangerous. As one of the lower South
Speaker 1: states topped to the north by Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia,
Speaker 1: and Kentucky, it would require having to travel in secret
Speaker 1: through at least two other states in order to reach
Speaker 1: the safety of the North. Most would have considered it
Speaker 1: an impossible journey. In eighteen forty eight, however, seventeen years
Speaker 1: before slavery was legally outlawed in the United States, two individuals,
Speaker 1: Ellen and William Craft, attempted it regardless. Their story is
Speaker 1: one of the most extraordinary, daring and heartbreaking escapes to
Speaker 1: freedom the world has ever known. Before recounting the Craft's story,
Speaker 1: it is essential to understand the context under which it
Speaker 1: took place. Around the year eighteen fifty, they were estimated
Speaker 1: to be roughly four million slaves in the United States,
Speaker 1: and half a million of those were in Georgia. Just
Speaker 1: under a third of the adult white male population of
Speaker 1: the state owned a slave, but most belonged to the
Speaker 1: slave holding elite, which constituted roughly fifteen percent of the
Speaker 1: white adult male population roughly twenty thousand individuals. Though only
Speaker 1: a small minority, this fifteen percent of the population or
Speaker 1: did a deeply disproportionate amount of power, not only as landowners,
Speaker 1: but also because two thirds of the states legislators were
Speaker 1: taken from this minority. In other words, those who owned
Speaker 1: slaves could dictate the state's political and economic path without
Speaker 1: ever needing the cooperation of non slaveholding legislators. So when
Speaker 1: it came to the question of abolition, the quest to
Speaker 1: end slavery in the United states. It goes without saying
Speaker 1: that these men, whose power and wealth were entirely dependent
Speaker 1: on slavery, had little sympathy for it. The way to
Speaker 1: justify their position legally was to treat their slaves like
Speaker 1: any other property that they owned, which is to say,
Speaker 1: while slavery remained legal, any attempt to escape from it meant,
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the law, that you were perpetrating
Speaker 1: the theft of property, the property being yourself. The consequences
Speaker 1: of being caught attempting to flee from bondage as a
Speaker 1: slave were stark and would invariably include, at the very
Speaker 1: least torture, if not rape, and even death. In some cases,
Speaker 1: a slave owner would prefer to maim or kill their
Speaker 1: own slaves rather than allow them their freedom. Punishments meted
Speaker 1: out to captured slaves could range anywhere from whipping to
Speaker 1: having ears cropped, to the severing of hamstrings or the
Speaker 1: tendons close to the knee. To prevent further attempts that escape,
Speaker 1: it was also common to have individuals branded on the face,
Speaker 1: on the shoulder, and even the butters, so that other
Speaker 1: locals could easily identify a former runaway slave, and such
Speaker 1: actions were permitted and in some cases encouraged by law,
Speaker 1: which says nothing of the difficulty for any slave on
Speaker 1: the run in evading capture in the first place. It
Speaker 1: was also legal in a number of slave states for
Speaker 1: any white person to stop a black individual if they
Speaker 1: had reason to suspect they were not where they were
Speaker 1: supposed to be. As the law stated, it shall be
Speaker 1: lawful for such white persons to pursue, apprehend, and moderately
Speaker 1: correct such a slave, And if such slave should strike
Speaker 1: or assault such white person, such slave may be lawfully killed.
Speaker 1: It was a right often taken with relish. William Craft
Speaker 1: was born into slavery in Macon, Georgia, eighteen twenty four.
Speaker 1: By age ten, he had watched helplessly as his mother
Speaker 1: and father were separated and sold off to different owners
Speaker 1: many miles apart, unlikely to ever see each other again.
Speaker 1: By sixteen, two brothers and two sisters had also been
Speaker 1: sold to raise bank debts for his owner. However, since
Speaker 1: his owner was ultimately unable to pay these debts, William
Speaker 1: was essentially confiscated by the bank and soon after became
Speaker 1: the property of one of the company's cashiers, having already
Speaker 1: been apprenticed to a carpenter in Macon, it was decided
Speaker 1: he should be kept on in that role. In eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty five, Maria Ellen Craft's mother was raped by her owner,
Speaker 1: Major James Smith, and consequently fell pregnant. She gave birth
Speaker 1: to Ellen the following year, creating the not unusual predicament
Speaker 1: that Ellen's father was also her slave master. As a
Speaker 1: further consequence of this crime, Ellen's skin was unusually light
Speaker 1: for a black slave, even more so as her mother
Speaker 1: had also been born under similar circumstances. As a child
Speaker 1: slaving for Major Smith's family, Ellen was frequently mistaken for
Speaker 1: one of his wife's children. Angered by this as well
Speaker 1: as her being a constant reminder of her husband's infidelity,
Speaker 1: Missus Smith decided to take action. At the age of eleven,
Speaker 1: Ellen was taken from her mother and given as a
Speaker 1: gift to one of mister and Missus Smith's daughters, who
Speaker 1: lived in Macon as a wedding present. It was there
Speaker 1: that Ellen would later meet William, stealing moments together whenever
Speaker 1: they could. The pair soon fell in love, and as
Speaker 1: their relationship grew, it was only natural that their thoughts
Speaker 1: should turn to their future life together and the prospect
Speaker 1: of perhaps one day starting a family. Both knew only
Speaker 1: too well, however, that any child of theirs would, by
Speaker 1: law or so become the property of Ellen's masters, and
Speaker 1: this was not a situation either was willing to accept.
Speaker 1: Though they fantasized about escaping to freedom, both knew it
Speaker 1: would be a near impossibility. Not only were they over
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty miles from the nearest free state
Speaker 1: if they were caught, the punishment for attempting it, at
Speaker 1: the bare minimum being separated from each other did not
Speaker 1: bear thinking about. In the end, they put all thought
Speaker 1: of escape behind them and resolved to eke out what
Speaker 1: joy they could in the company of each other. In
Speaker 1: eighteen forty six, after getting permission from their owners, Ellen
Speaker 1: and William were married. But as each day passed and
Speaker 1: the desire for a child grew stronger and stronger, the
Speaker 1: injustice of it all only became more intense. Until one
Speaker 1: day William hit on a plan. Since Ellen had frequently
Speaker 1: been mistaken for being white, perhaps they could travel unnoticed,
Speaker 1: he thought, provided Ellen played the part of William's master.
Speaker 1: The big catch being that, since it was virtually unheard
Speaker 1: of for a white woman to travel alone, with a
Speaker 1: black slave, Ellen would have to do this while also
Speaker 1: pretending to be a man. Over the next few months,
Speaker 1: the pair cautiously made their preparations. As a carpenter, William
Speaker 1: was allowed to keep a small percentage of his earnings,
Speaker 1: and so he began to save them up. Then, always
Speaker 1: at a regular times and from different shops, he started
Speaker 1: to buy all the necessary pieces for Ellen's disguise, who
Speaker 1: in turn made the required adjustments, stashing each item away
Speaker 1: in a chest of drawers that William had made for her.
Speaker 1: After securing permission to take a few days leave, something
Speaker 1: which was only very occasionally granted during the Christmas holidays,
Speaker 1: the pair waited patiently for their day to arrive. On Tuesday,
Speaker 1: December twentieth, Ellen and William spent the night together in
Speaker 1: Ellen's room, terrified at the prospect of what they were
Speaker 1: about to do. Then, as the hour drew near, Ellen
Speaker 1: put on her disguise. This included a fine jacket and trousers,
Speaker 1: as well as a top hat and a sash of tartan,
Speaker 1: the preferred accessory of many a slave owner. The costume
Speaker 1: was finished off with a pair of glasses. But then
Speaker 1: something occurred to Ellen. Neither she nor William could read
Speaker 1: or write it, being in fact illegal for anyone to
Speaker 1: teach a slave how to do so as part of
Speaker 1: a systematic effort to prevent organizing against their oppressors. If,
Speaker 1: as was custom, Ellen was required to put her name
Speaker 1: in a boarding or customs house directory, they would be
Speaker 1: found out immediately. Then she had an idea. Taking some material,
Speaker 1: she made a sling for her arm and a bandage
Speaker 1: to place around her head. If she was asked to
Speaker 1: write her name, she would claim to be too infirm
Speaker 1: to do it. The bandage on her head would hide
Speaker 1: her lack of facial hair and hopefully dissuade people from
Speaker 1: talking to her. With the hour having arrived, they blew
Speaker 1: out the candles and quietly made their way to the
Speaker 1: front door as the faint glimmer of freedom beckoned from beyond.
Speaker 1: But as William stepped forward to leave, Ellen remained fixed
Speaker 1: to the spot. Suddenly it had all come rushing up
Speaker 1: to her, the impossibility of what they were trying to do,
Speaker 1: and the price if they were to get aught. She
Speaker 1: looked to William, her eyes welling with tears, and silently
Speaker 1: shook her head. But then she thought of everything they
Speaker 1: had suffered, of what her future children would suffer, and
Speaker 1: everyone else that had ever suffered. Then she wiped away
Speaker 1: the tears and looked her husband in the eye. Come
Speaker 1: it is getting late, she said, Let us venture upon
Speaker 1: our perilous journey. And with that they were gone into
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Speaker 1: first task was to make it out of Macon without
Speaker 1: William being spotted. Though they were confident Ellen would evade capture.
Speaker 1: Since William was only meant to be taking time time
Speaker 1: off for Christmas, any evidence that he was leaving the
Speaker 1: city would be immediately suspect. They knew also that they
Speaker 1: didn't have long before both their absences would be noticed.
Speaker 1: Every part of the plan had to run perfectly That
Speaker 1: morning to avoid suspicion. The pair traveled to the station separately,
Speaker 1: Having arrived at the earliest. William had to endure a
Speaker 1: painful weight looking out for any sign of Ellen, fearing
Speaker 1: every second that her cover had been blown. Finally catching
Speaker 1: sight of her, he stood wait as she successfully purchased
Speaker 1: the tickets, handing one silently to him before making her
Speaker 1: way to the first class carriage. William then stowed away
Speaker 1: the luggage and went to sit with the other slaves
Speaker 1: in the back carriage. Now separated but joined in the
Speaker 1: quickening rhythm of their hearts, the pair sat and waited,
Speaker 1: counting the seconds as the rest of the passengers milled
Speaker 1: about looking for their seats. Just then William's face froze
Speaker 1: in horror. The carpenter he had been apprenticed to was
Speaker 1: steadily making his way down the platform, clearly looking for somebody.
Speaker 1: As the man's agitation intensified, William watched with terror as
Speaker 1: the man jumped onto the train and began charging through
Speaker 1: the carriages, checking the face of every passenger he passed.
Speaker 1: William turned to the window as the man drew closer
Speaker 1: and closer, until when on the verge of entering his carriage,
Speaker 1: the sharp peep of a whistle was heard, followed by
Speaker 1: the ringing of the train's disembarking bell, and then it
Speaker 1: started to shudder forward. The man took one last desperate look,
Speaker 1: then wrenched open the door and jumped onto the platform.
Speaker 1: Seconds later, the train pulled away the station up ahead
Speaker 1: in first class. Unaware of the earlier close call, Ellen
Speaker 1: was also trying to avoid eye contact, staring out at
Speaker 1: the window when she felt the presence of another passenger
Speaker 1: sit down beside her. It was Ellen's turn now to
Speaker 1: freeze in fear. Since the man was mister Cray, an
Speaker 1: old friend of her former master. It's a very fine morning, sir,
Speaker 1: came a voice. I said, a fine morning, sir, he
Speaker 1: repeated with irritation, Ellen pretended not to hear. When he
Speaker 1: said it again, louder, this time, drawing embarrassed looks from
Speaker 1: fellow passengers. Ellen finally plucked up the courage to face him.
Speaker 1: Slowly turning round, she kept her head low and muttered
Speaker 1: a quiet yes before turning back to the window. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: mister Craig didn't recognize her. That evening, they arrived in
Speaker 1: Savannah and took a steamship bound for Charleston in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Later that night, Ellen was able to avoid the customary
Speaker 1: drink with guests by pretending to suffer about of rheumatism.
Speaker 1: Once settled in her cabin, William stepped out onto the
Speaker 1: deck to ask a steward where he was supposed to sleep.
Speaker 1: The steward replied there was no place for people like him,
Speaker 1: slave or otherwise. William eventually settled on top of some
Speaker 1: bags of cotton, close to the warmth of the ship's funnel,
Speaker 1: and sat there until dawn. The following morning, Ellen, no
Speaker 1: longer able to avoid conversation, was forced to take breakfast
Speaker 1: with the rest of the first class passengers. Arriving in
Speaker 1: the dining room, she discovered she would also be sitting
Speaker 1: next to the captain. Throughout the conversation, as William cut
Speaker 1: the food for his pretend master, the crafts were treated
Speaker 1: to the full litany of ideas and language one can
Speaker 1: imagine of wealthy slave owners of the time. At one point,
Speaker 1: one guest, concerned that Ellen, who they took, of course
Speaker 1: to be a man, might lose his slave if he
Speaker 1: were to travel to Pennsylvania, offered to take William off
Speaker 1: his hands there and then, in the deepest tone she
Speaker 1: could muster, Ellen thanked the man for his kind gesture,
Speaker 1: before excusing herself at the first opportunity and making her
Speaker 1: way back to her cabin. Later, Ellen was invited to
Speaker 1: take a drink with the military officer, who was also
Speaker 1: concerned at the way she appeared to spoil her slave,
Speaker 1: not once having even reprimanded him in all the time
Speaker 1: she had been on board the vessel. After finally arriving
Speaker 1: at their destination having avoided detection, Ellen and William proceeded
Speaker 1: to an near by hotel to get some food before
Speaker 1: returning to the port to board a steamer bound for
Speaker 1: Wilmington in North Carolina. Everything went smoothly until Ellen was
Speaker 1: asked to write her name. When she asked if the
Speaker 1: ticket officer could do it for her, he refused. There
Speaker 1: was just something about the man stood in front of
Speaker 1: him that didn't seem quite right. He was just leaning
Speaker 1: in to get a closer look at his face when
Speaker 1: a voice called out from the back of the queue.
Speaker 1: It was the military man from the previous boat trip,
Speaker 1: demanding to know what the hold up was on. Seeing
Speaker 1: Ellen having trouble at the front, the man scolded the
Speaker 1: ticket officer and demanded immediately that she'd be allowed through.
Speaker 1: The officer duly obliged. From Wilmington, Ellen and William, who
Speaker 1: by now had been declared missing back in Georgia, continued
Speaker 1: by train through Richmond, Virginia, and on toward Maryland, each
Speaker 1: hour bringing them simultaneously closer to freedom but also possible capture. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: the next part of their journey passed without major incident,
Speaker 1: with the exception of William being at one point mistaken
Speaker 1: for someone else's slave, until finally, on the eve of
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, they poured in to Baltimore. Ellen and William
Speaker 1: were now only forty miles away from the nearest free state. However,
Speaker 1: being one of the last major cities so close to
Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania border, Baltimore was also one of the most
Speaker 1: heavily policed for fugitive slaves looking to sneak across the border.
Speaker 1: Later that day, for what they hoped would be the
Speaker 1: last time before they made it across the border, Ellen
Speaker 1: approached the ticket office window and brought two tickets for
Speaker 1: the overnight train to Philadelphia. On receiving them, she handed
Speaker 1: one to William, and together they headed on to the
Speaker 1: train once again, William helping her into the first class
Speaker 1: carriage before taking his place in the slave carriage. Moments later,
Speaker 1: Ellen was surprised to see William standing at the carriage
Speaker 1: door again. It was all she could do to suppress
Speaker 1: a smile at the thought that in only a few
Speaker 1: hours time they could be free, but something on the
Speaker 1: look of William's face told a different story. William asked
Speaker 1: his master to join him on the platform. Ellen promptly
Speaker 1: got up and stepped off the train to find a
Speaker 1: police officer waiting to speak with her outside. The man
Speaker 1: then invited her into his office while the passengers watched
Speaker 1: from inside the train The officer explained that he could
Speaker 1: not let Ellen travel across the border unless she could
Speaker 1: provide proof that she was William's rightful owner. Was to someone,
Speaker 1: perhaps in Baltimore, that could vouch for them, the officer asked,
Speaker 1: Ellen shook her head. The officer looked both William and
Speaker 1: the disguised Ellen up and down, then asked them both
Speaker 1: to stay where they were. Just then, the train's departure
Speaker 1: bell rang out and a commotion started up. It was
Speaker 1: the passengers on the train, demanding that the officer let
Speaker 1: the man travel with his slave. After all, couldn't he
Speaker 1: see he was an invalid. The officer arrived back in
Speaker 1: the room, unsure what to do. Finally he made a decision.
Speaker 1: He handed the tickets back to Ellen and destructed the
Speaker 1: clerk to inform the conductor that they were now permitted
Speaker 1: to board the train. That night, the pair across the
Speaker 1: border into the Free state of Pennsylvania. A few hours later,
Speaker 1: the train stopped at the banks of the Susquehanna River.
Speaker 1: Here the passengers were required to disembark in order to
Speaker 1: take a ferry to the other side, before meeting up
Speaker 1: with the train again and continuing on their way to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: but when Ellen arrived at the other side, there was
Speaker 1: no sign of William anywhere. While trying not to display
Speaker 1: her panic, she asked the other passengers if anyone had
Speaker 1: seen him. Ironically, since most of them were abolitionists, none
Speaker 1: of them were inclined to help. She soon realized that
Speaker 1: he had most likely been discovered or abducted. In any case,
Speaker 1: he was now gone, with the train due to leave.
Speaker 1: Ellen had a choice to make. Since she had the
Speaker 1: tickets and what was left of their money, leaving without
Speaker 1: him would mean almost certainly never seeing him again, but
Speaker 1: if she stayed, she might too risk capture. She had
Speaker 1: no choice but to continue. Utterly devastated and inconsolable, but
Speaker 1: unable to reveal even a hint of it, Ellen boarded
Speaker 1: the train and took her seat in the first class carriage.
Speaker 1: Just then a voice called out from the back of it.
Speaker 1: Ellen turned to find William standing in the entrance. I
Speaker 1: heard you were looking for me, sir, he said, without flinching.
Speaker 1: Ellen replied, I was afraid you had run away. William,
Speaker 1: never your master, he said, before turning to take his
Speaker 1: seat in his usual carriage. After arriving in Philadelphia, William
Speaker 1: and Ellen were introduced to mister Berkley Evans, a prominent abolitionist,
Speaker 1: who invited the couple to stay with him at his
Speaker 1: family while they out their next plans. It was the
Speaker 1: first time either of them, as they put it later,
Speaker 1: had experienced an act of disinterested kindness from a white person.
Speaker 1: From there, the couple were given safe passage to Boston,
Speaker 1: where they settled for two years, with William working as
Speaker 1: a carpenter and Ellen as a seamstress. However, with the
Speaker 1: government passing the Fugitive Slave Bill in eighteen fifty, everything changed. Now,
Speaker 1: regardless of whether a slave had made it to a
Speaker 1: free state or not, inhabitants of free states were required,
Speaker 1: under law, under heavy penalty, to refuse food and shelter
Speaker 1: to any fugitive slaves, but also to assist in seizing
Speaker 1: the perceived perpetrators. Judges required to officiate over the matter
Speaker 1: of returning a fugitive slave to their owner would be
Speaker 1: paid commission to do so. As soon as this bill
Speaker 1: was passed, Ellen and William's owners took out warrants and
Speaker 1: placed them in the hands of the United States Marshal
Speaker 1: to execute. A few weeks later, two slave hunters mister
Speaker 1: Hughes and mister Knight arrived in Boston intent on capturing
Speaker 1: them with the help of the Vigilance Committee, an organization
Speaker 1: of abolitionists. Ellen was taken out of the city to hide,
Speaker 1: while William had little choice but to stick it out
Speaker 1: in their home. Thankfully, it was not legal for the
Speaker 1: bounty hunters or u S Marshals to break into anyone's property,
Speaker 1: and so attent stalemate ensued. Frustrated by it, the craft's
Speaker 1: old masters even wrote to President Fillmore for assistance, who,
Speaker 1: in turn, agreeing that the pair should be arrested and
Speaker 1: sent back to slavery, arranged for a small military force
Speaker 1: to assist the marshal in making the arrest. Miraculously, however,
Speaker 1: Ellen and William managed to evade capture for over two
Speaker 1: weeks before finally making it out of Boston, and with
Speaker 1: the assistance of more abolitionists, eventually succeeded in making it
Speaker 1: all the way to Liverpool in the United Kingdom and
Speaker 1: to complete freedom at last. The couple remained in England
Speaker 1: for almost two decades, where they had five children. Together,
Speaker 1: with the resolution of the United States Civil War and
Speaker 1: the abolition of slavery, they were finally able to return
Speaker 1: to their homeland. In the years that followed, the couple
Speaker 1: were frequently invited to lecture on the circumstances of their
Speaker 1: extraordinary escape. Such was the etiquette of the time, only
Speaker 1: William was ever permitted to talk, while Ellen had to
Speaker 1: be content to sit silently on the stage next to him.
Speaker 1: In the first few years after making it to the UKAE,
Speaker 1: many slavers, keen to protect their profits and drum up
Speaker 1: support for maintaining the slave trade, resorted to good old
Speaker 1: fashioned fake news in their efforts. Pamphlets were made up
Speaker 1: stating that since escaping their captivity, the crafts had fallen
Speaker 1: on hard times and that they regretted ever having made
Speaker 1: their escape. But by then, thanks in part to the
Speaker 1: efforts of Harriet Martineau, a prominent British abolitionist, Ellen had
Speaker 1: learned to read and write, and she was not about
Speaker 1: to have her story told by anyone other than herself.
Speaker 1: Writing in eighteen fifty two, she declared, I write these
Speaker 1: few lines merely to say that this statement is entirely unfounded,
Speaker 1: for I have never had the slightest inclination whatever of
Speaker 1: returning to bondage, and God forbid that I should ever
Speaker 1: be so false to liberty as to prefer slavery in
Speaker 1: its stead. In fact, since my escape from slavery, I
Speaker 1: have gotten much better in every respect than I could
Speaker 1: have possibly anticipated. Though had it been to the contrary,
Speaker 1: my feelings in regard to this would have been just
Speaker 1: the same, for I had much rather starved in England
Speaker 1: a free woman than be a slave for the best
Speaker 1: man that ever breathed upon the American continent. In eighteen sixty,
Speaker 1: the couple published Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, giving
Speaker 1: the full account of their extraordinary story. If you enjoy
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