Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

Series: Great Adventure Series

Duration: 54

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1965

Creator: Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Portrays the first trips made between 1850 and 1860 by Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave, on the Underground Railroad as she conducted the first of what was eventually to be 300 slaves to freedom., Shows the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman's role, her subsequent escape and her personal story, and the conflicts and trials involved in a slave's flight to freedom.

Complete Record: Portrays the first trips made between 1850 and 1860 by Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave, on the Underground Railroad as she conducted the first of what was eventually to be 300 slaves to freedom. , Harriet Tubman was born as a slave in the South, where she grew up in the decades preceding the Civil war. Harriet Tubman was one of the most daring conductors on the Underground Railroad that was carrying fleeing slaves to freedom. This film portrays the first nineteen harrowing trips Mrs. Tubman made into slave territory between 1850 and 1860., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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