Roots of resistance: a story of the underground railroad

Recounts the story of the underground railroad through narratives of escaped slaves. Includes interviews with descendants of slaves and slave holders of Somerset Place, a plantation in North Carolina, who describe the personal danger and terrible risk involved in each slave's departure

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Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] PBS Video [1998?]
Edition:PBS video index version
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Summary:Recounts the story of the underground railroad through narratives of escaped slaves. Includes interviews with descendants of slaves and slave holders of Somerset Place, a plantation in North Carolina, who describe the personal danger and terrible risk involved in each slave's departure
Item Description:VHS.. - PBS Video database accessed via World Wide Web. - Originally broadcast on the PBS television series The American experience in 1990. - Specially prepared set enhanced by PBS with time code visible on the screen. - Supplemented by the "PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History & Culture Merged Index" which provides subject references to specific videocassette volume numbers within the series and to specific locations within individual videocassettes according to on-screen counter numbers indicating number of minutes and seconds elapsed within a specific referenced videocassette. - Curriculum resources available on database for video. Videos in database referenced by grade level, academic area, historical period, and standards correlation. Selected lesson plans for instructors available on database
Host, David McCullough
Director of photography, Michael Chin ; editor, Gail Yasunaga ; music, Bernice Johnson Reagon ; narrator, Ruby Dee
Physical Description:1 videocassette (60 min.) sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in

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