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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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