FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 1999
- Language: English
- Color
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
- Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Features: Chapter Select, Interactive Menu, Frederick Douglass episode of A&E's Award-winning Series Biography, Emancipation Proclamation, Background Information, Dredd Scott Case, Harriet Tubman Biography, Timeline of Historical Events,
- Technical: Single Layer, Single Sided, Full Screen
- DVD Region: 1
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
A&E presents this story of the 200-year struggle to break the bonds of slavery in the American South. Learn about the network of runaway slaves, freed blacks and anti-slavery whites who were willing to risk everything for the sake of freedom. Features re-creations of escapes and legendary achievements by Abolitionist figures such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...Highly recommended." - Video Librarian (Sept/Oct 99)FULL REVIEWS
Video Librarian (January 1900)
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"Narrated by Alfre Woodard, this true story of America's first civil rights movement debunks romantic myths of secret tunnels and doorways, and paints--through dramatic recreations of frightening escapes and the hardships slaves endured--a realistic picture of the Underground Railroad that took them northward to freedom. Songs, stories, and handshakes contained secret signs and clues to help the fugitive find the correct path, a feat in itself considering most slaves never left the plantation where they worked, had no means of communication, nor could they read. The story begins with the first indentured servants in the early 1600s and follows the rise of the abolitionist movement and its accompanying heroes and heroines, to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The vignettes, photographs, and dramatizations are stirring, the subject well researched, and the ideas are presented in a clear and concise manner that will hold the interest of younger children as well as adults. Part of the History Channel's Save Our History campaign to identify, save and preserve national historic landmarks, Underground Railroad has featured activities, resources, reading lists and study guides available on the History Channel website. Highly recommended.