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Tom tells the equally tragic and miraculously joyful story of Seth Concklin and Peter Still. It is little known but certainly one of the most remarkable stories among the many remarkable stories of the Underground Railroad. He also includes music by Kim and Reggie Harris and concludes the program with a selection from Porgy and […]
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Tom switches gears and devotes his show to contemporary issues involving slavery and freedom in America today. He describes how the antebellum antislavery movement started under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison and compares it to what is needed today to preserve our freedoms. Discussion and analysis of contemporary issues follows the consideration of Garrison’s […]
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Aninterview with Debra Sandoe McCauslin, an historian from Gettysburg,Pennsylvania, who discusses the Underground Railroad in the Gettysburg area and talks about some of its more prominent participants. A descendant of George Washington Sandoe, thefirst soldier to die during the Battle of Gettysburg, she currently gives history tours of the region with a focus on the […]
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Interview with Cathy Nelson, founder and coordinator of The Friends of Freedom Society, a statewide organization in Ohio dedicated to raise public awareness about the lives of slaves and their effort to seek freedom through the Underground Railroad. We talk about how the organization started and the many programs it has established, its newsletter and the […]
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An Underground Railroad researcher from Kansas City, Jenkins has produced two major documentaries on the antebellum history of Kansas and Missouri, Negroes to Hire,which is based on stories from the American Slave Narratives gathered from1936-38 and which won the Historical Film of 2010 award from the Jackson CountyMissouri Historical Society, and Freedom Seekers: TheUnderground Railroad […]
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An Underground Railroad researcher from Kansas City, Jenkins has produced two major documentaries on the antebellum history of Kansas and Missouri, Negroes to Hire, which is based on stories from the American Slave Narratives gathered from 1936-38 and which won the Historical Film of 2010 award from the Jackson County Missouri Historical Society, and Freedom […]
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Interview with Joseph McGill, a program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In the year 2010, Joe embarked on an ambitious and unique project of sleeping in slave quarters that were still in existence, for what is known as the “Slave Cabin Project.” Since then he has slept in more than 30 former […]
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Interview with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, founders of the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region in Albany, New York. We discuss their discovery of the Stephen and Harriet Myers residence that was the headquarters of the Underground Railroad in Albany, and which they are transforming into a museum. They talk about programs […]
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Interview with acclaimed writer and historian Fergus Bordewich, the author of six books and whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and New York Magazine. The discussion centers around Bordewich’s monumental book on the Underground Railroad, Bound for Canaan. We discuss what the Underground Railroad was and […]
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Second interview discussing the life and importance of Gerrit Smith. In this show, we focus on Smith’s involvement in the Liberty Party and his association with John Brown. Norman Dann, retired professor of Social Science at Morrisville State College in Central, N.Y., is one of the founders of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and […]
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Our guest is historian Owen Muelder, director of the Underground Railroad Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and author of The Underground Railroad in Illinois and Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Owen discusses Theodore Weld, the greatest antislavery orator and perhaps the most influential antislavery activist during the early period of […]
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Second Part of Interview with John Brown scholar Jean Libby during which she talks about the outcome of Harpers Ferry and the events that established John Brown’s reputation leading up to his execution. We also talk to Adam Phillips of McFarland and Company, Inc., one of the nation’s leading publishers of reference books and the […]
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On this show, which is part one of two shows about John Brown and Harpers Ferry, Libby will tell us of the events leading up to and during the raid at Harpers Ferry. I also will report on the recent Network to Freedom conference held in St. Augustine, Florida, which reported on recent research about […]
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Interview with John Brown scholar Jean Libby, creator of the John Brown Photo Chronology exhibit and the companion book of the same name. On this show, Libby discusses how she became interested in John Brown and what led her to research and collect the John Brown photos for an exhibit. We also will talk about […]
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Summary of From Slavery to Freedom – 06/25/12 Interview with Don Papson, president and founder of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association in the Adirondack region of upstate New York. We discuss his research, his organization, and his new museum in Ausable Chasm, New York. Don tells us how he became interested in the […]
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Interview with Dott Willsey, president and founder of the National Abolition Hall of Fame in Peterboro, NY, a tiny hamlet near Utica. Dott will talk about the Abolition Hall of Fame, how it originated and how its inductees are chosen. She discusses the importance of studying and preserving the history of the abolitionists. She talks […]
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Our guest is Diane Miller, National Coordinator of the Network to Freedom, the National Parks Service’s Underground Railroad division. She talks about the origin and evolution of the Network to Freedom and how the Network to Freedom selects sites to designate as part of its Network to Freedom. The conversation moves into a discussion of […]
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Back for a second visit, Bryan is considered by many to be the preeminent historian today of the Underground Railroad in Canada. Today, Bryan Prince is back for a second visit. He is the author of three books: I Came As a Stranger, A Shadow on the Household, and most recently, One More River to […]
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Interview with acclaimed writer and historian Fergus Bordewich, the author of six books and whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and New York Magazine. The discussion centers around Bordewich’s monumental book on the Underground Railroad, Bound for Canaan. We discuss what the Underground Railroad was and […]
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Interview with John Brown scholar Jean Libby about the Harpers Ferry raid and with Mick Konowal, antiques collector, who recently purchased one of the Sharps rifles that was used by one of Brown’s men at Harpers Ferry. Libby is the creator of the exhibit, John Brown Photo Chronology and the companion book. Konowal is a […]
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Discussion of the life and importance of Gerrit Smith. Our guest is one of the founders of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, New York, a small community near Utica, New York, and retired professor of Social Science at Morrisville State College in Central, NY. He is the author of three […]
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Shannon is the curator of the Buxton Historic Site and Museum in Buxton, Ontario, and Bryan is on the board of directors. Bryan also is the author of three books about the Underground Railroad. They discuss their heritage as descendants of fugitive slaves and the interest in the Underground Railroad that developed from their ancestry. […]
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Interview with Darryl Omar Freeman, a Ph.D, candidate in Interdisciplinary Services at Washington State University. A feature of his dissertation is the participation of Native American people in the Underground Railroad, a topic that has received little scrutiny. Darryl discusses cases in which Native Americans aided fugitive slaves and explains why Native Americans were sympathetic […]
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This week’s guest is Peter Michael, founder of the only national publication devoted to the Underground Railroad, the Underground Railroad Free Press. We discuss why the Underground Railroad is such an important part of our history and the role the Free Press plays in promoting it. Michael also talks about his new book about John […]
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Historian Owen Muelder, author of The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois, discusses the Underground Railroad in the west. During the show we discuss some of the leading conductors, and the most well-known fugitive slaves who escaped to freedom in the west which was then the wilderness that was the states of Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. […]
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Interview with historian Kate Clifford Larson, author of the biographies, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero, and The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln. Larson tells how she became interested in Tubman and informs us that the historical Harriet is a bit different than […]
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Founders of the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region in Albany, New York, the Stewarts discuss how they became interested in the Underground Railroad and the discoveries they made. We also discuss what it was, why it is important today, and the struggle of Americans to live up to the vision of freedom […]
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