fugitive
noun
a person who is fleeing, as from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway.
fugitivity
-
a word derived from
fugitive.
Example Sentences
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By the time I got to making this work about the Underground Railroad and Black fugitivity, I’d become very comfortable with where the two sides, the top and bottom, are of a landscape photograph.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023
So it became about the place — the real and imagined places of fugitivity for escaping African Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023
And I think in the kind of migration that we’re seeing now to the South, among Black folks, there is an aspect of fugitivity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
