American Experience
Season 2 Episode 16 - Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery in the mid 1800s -- trails and backroads, safehouses, river crossings and night trains leading as far north as Canada. Disguises, secret rendezvous and special codes were used to guard the identity of "conductors" and their fugitive "passengers." But flight to free territory didn't guarantee freedom; fugitives could be hunted down and returned.
Episodes in Season 2
The Great Air Race of 1924
55 min
Demon Rum
55 min
A Family Gathering
55 min
The Great War: 1918
55 min
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
55 min
Forever Baseball
55 min
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
55 min
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
55 min
Adam Clayton Powell
55 min
Journey to America
55 min
Ballad of a Mountain Man
55 min
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
55 min
Orphans of the Storm
55 min
Forbidden City, USA
55 min
Battle for Wilderness
55 min
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
55 min