Freedom Seekers : Stories From the Western Underground Railroad
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The road to Kansas -- The Lane Trail -- Stories from Topeka, Kansas -- Stories from Mound City/Osawatomie, Kansas -- Stories from the Wakarusa Valley, Kansas -- Stories from Lawrence, Kansas -- John Brown : last train to Canada -- Other stories from the Underground Railroad -- Freedom's pathway -- Director interview.
Narration, Danny Cox.
Primary source documents, historians, interviews with slave descendants, readings and dramatic depictions provide understanding of the regional issues surrounding antebellum slavery and the antislavery movement that helped shape the Western Underground Railroad, a perhaps less known escape route along the western frontier.
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PUBLISHED
Wheeling, IL : Film Ideas, [2012], c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Jenkins, Gary.
Cox, Danny.
Film Ideas (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Underground Railroad -- West (U.S.)
Underground Railroad -- Kansas.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Documentary films.