Between the 1830s and 1860s, a clandestine communications and transportation network called the “Underground Railroad” helped thousands of slaves escape to freedom.
Today, we will investigate and explore this secret network with Eric Foner), a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad).
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