Escaping Slavery on the Undergound Railroad
Black History
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11m
Stirring dramatizations, archival photographs, and colorful maps help tell the story of the Underground Railroad. Students will understand that the Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses maintained by volunteers which were used by enslaved people to escape to freedom. The program focuses on the importance of the Underground Railroad to the abolition movement.
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