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Freedom seekers [videorecording (DVD)] : stories from the western underground railroad.

Film Ideas, [2011].

DVD 973.7115 F853w

Underground Railroad -- Kansas.

Underground Railroad.

Fugitive slaves -- Kansas.

Slavery -- Kansas -- 19th century.

Alternate title:

Stories from the western underground railroad [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] :

1 videodisc (75 min.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Public performance rights.

A documentary by Gary Jenkins.

James Patrick Morgans, William O. Wagnon, Bill Hayes, Jonathan Earle, Harriet Frazier, Jimmy S. Johnson ; narrator/singer, Danny Cox.

Voice actors: Nick Haines, Jared Goede, Eric Goodman, Kim Noble, Henry Fortunato, Archie J. Williams, Molly O'Neill.

Brings an understanding of the regional issues relating to antebellum slavery and the antislavery movement that helped shape the western Underground Railroad. Slaves, with the help of stationmasters and conductors, had to dodge professional slave catchers, federal marshals, and slave holders on a grueling thousand mile journey to freedom. Viewer will learn how the Kansas/Missouri political conditions created the opportunity for the perhaps less known escape route along the western frontier. This film uses primary source documents, historians, interviews with slave descendants, moving readings and dramatic depictions to tell exciting stories of Underground Railroad activities.

Documentary films.

Cox, Danny (Vocalist)

Morgans, James Patrick.

Wagnon, William O., Jr., 1939-

Film Ideas (Firm)

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