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In a five-minute span, Art Ryan morphed from portraying a scared female slave into the overbearing Southern aristocrat who owned her. As his listeners sat on a shaded bench near Independence Hall, he took them back to Philadelphia circa 1855, where they listened to the whispers amongst the staff at a Walnut Street hotel and relived a woman's fear as she stood trembling aboard a steamboat heading to New York. »Read story




