Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska (Blankenau) Section Human Interest the larger questions of women’s Thunder on the strip:Black XL the larger questions of women’s wartime contributions remain important correctives to our understanding of the war’s impact Wittenberg has masterfully told this compelling story and their actions challenged slavery’s tentative expansion into the West and its eventual demise in an era of territorial fluidity In Journey to Freedom Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of these two enslaved Black women from Nebraska City