| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) |
| Playing Time |
Duration: 75 minutes |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Film Ideas in 2012. |
| Summary |
Freedom Seekers 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 slaveholders 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Indexed Term |
Documentaries |
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History - Modern |
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North American Studies |
| Added Author |
Jenkins, Gary, filmmaker
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1144185 Kanopy |
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