Lectures tagged "Underground Railroad"

Last Tracks: Perils of the Underground Railroad
Jacqueline Tobin
February 20, 2007
00:53:03
Jacqueline Tobin offers a fresh perspective on the Underground Railroad as she traces the perilous journeys of fugitive ex-slaves from the United States to free black settlements in Canada.
Audio-only
Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land
Kate Clifford Larson
February 10, 2004
00:52:38
Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses her new book, Bound for the Promised Land, which draws on a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research and reveals Harriet Tubman as a complex woman who was brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her p