American Experience
Season 2 Episode 16 - Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
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
1
The Great Air Race of 1924
55 min
2
Demon Rum
55 min
3
A Family Gathering
55 min
4
The Great War: 1918
55 min
5
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
55 min
6
Forever Baseball
55 min
7
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
55 min
8
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
55 min
9
Adam Clayton Powell
55 min
10
Journey to America
55 min
11
Ballad of a Mountain Man
55 min
12
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
55 min
13
Orphans of the Storm
55 min
14
Forbidden City, USA
55 min
15
Battle for Wilderness
55 min
16
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
55 min
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