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The Underground Railroad | The Light of Freedom | 1

2024/2/7
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本集讲述了19世纪初期美国奴隶制背景下，逃亡奴隶在争取自由过程中面临的巨大风险和挑战，以及废奴主义者为帮助他们逃亡所做的努力。从一名逃亡奴隶被捕的经历开始，展现了奴隶制制度的残酷和逃亡的艰难。随后，介绍了地下铁路的起源和发展，以及费城在其中扮演的重要角色。艾萨克·霍珀等废奴主义者冒着生命危险，通过各种方式帮助逃亡奴隶，包括营救被绑架的自由黑人，利用法律漏洞等。科芬兄弟等废奴主义者也积极参与其中，他们冒着生命危险，为逃亡奴隶提供庇护和帮助，并想出各种巧妙的策略帮助他们逃往自由州。约西亚·亨森的故事则展现了逃亡奴隶在逃亡过程中面临的种种困难和危险，以及他们为了自由所付出的巨大努力。最终，他们到达加拿大，获得自由。

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In the early 1800s, slavery rapidly expanded across the American South. But each year, thousands of courageous enslaved men, women, and children fled their owners in search of freedom. And in Philadelphia, secret allies came to their aid. Quaker abolitionists collaborated with free Black people to bring the freedom seekers to safety. 

It was the start of the Underground Railroad, a clandestine network of activists, safe houses, and escape routes that would help tens of thousands of enslaved people flee bondage in the decades before the Civil War and challenge the very roots of American slavery.

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