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This is the story of a man who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom.
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This is the story of a man who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was an attempt by the government to appease southern slave states.
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Program segment for PBS Learning Media.
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Program segment for PBS Learning Media
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Slaves who ran away from their masters and were re-captured suffered terrible punishments.
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Historians have never been able to pin down how the Underground Railroad got its name.
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Program segment for PBS Learning Media.
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Well-known Negro Spirituals of the mid-1800s are much more complex than they first appear.
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William Still earned the name "The Father of the Underground Railroad".