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Underground Railroad (History Channel)

• It was America’s first civil rights movement, a loose network of diverse people bound together by conscience, determined to undo the institution of slavery one person at a time. “Conductors” risked fines and imprisonment in their devotion to the cause of freedom; “passengers” risked their lives. Hosted by Alfre Woodard (Passion Fish, Crooklyn), Underground Railroad traces the journey taken

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – DVD MovieThe Underground Railroad, “the first civil rights movement,” was no mere act of civil disobedience. The secret network of guides, pilots, and safe-house keepers (the Railroad’s “conductors”) was built by runaway slaves who, over the decades, communicated their experiences through songs and secret gestures, and were supported by abolitionists (many of them former slaves) who risked their own freedom to help free the enslaved. The “passengers” risked their lives. A

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