'Mexodus,' a world premiere musical at Center Stage, explores the Underground Railroad running south to Mexico
For a few terrifying minutes in 1850 as she stared down the barrel of a gun, Mathilde Hennes feared she was about to be returned from the home she had found in northeast Mexico to the Louisiana man who had enslaved her. But Hennes kept her wits about her and began to scream until her employer, Manuel Luis del Fierro,