OVERLOOKED PEOPLE WHO DESERVE TO BE REMEMBERED
Philip Reed, The Enslaved Man Who Rescued Freedom
11 min readJan 10, 2021
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In January 2009, a man who had vanished into the mists of history made a brief reappearance with the historic inauguration of Barack Obama. The man was Philip Reid, and if you google his name along with Obama’s, you’ll find dozens of articles that share the little-known history of Reid, the formerly…