LOCATIONS    Ohio University - Alden Instr.Media Serv
TITLE        Flight to freedom [videocassette] / a production of WXXI 
               Television.
IMPRINT      Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1995.
DESCRIPT     1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
NOTE         Subtitle on cassette label and container: The Underground 
               Railroad.
             Producers/directors, John Overlan, Ann Spurling ; editor, Michael
               Conolly ; music, Kevin Huber.
             Larry Tise (Franklin Foundation), Charles Joyner (Coastal 
               Carolina U.), Larry Gara (Historian), Horace Clarence Boyer (U.
               of Massachusetts, Amhurst), Alvin Parris (Minister), Charles 
               Blockson (Temple U.), Paul Cyr (Historian), Robert Gullo 
               (Librarian), Robert Hayden (Historian)
             Narrator: Cicely Tyson.
             Between 1790 and 1860, thousands of slaves fled the South for 
               liberation on the "Underground Railroad".  In addition to 
               examining archival photographs, records and artifacts and 
               interviews with national experts and descendants of slaves, 
               conductors, and abolitionists, this program includes examples 
               of spirituals sung by slaves as part of the "code" system, and 
               visits homes which were used as shelters. The program 
               highlights Rochester, New York, which was at the heart of the 
               railroad, where passengers were hidden by Frederick Douglass, 
               Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman and others.
             VHS.
SUBJECT      Douglass, Frederick, 1817-1895.
             Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913.
             Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
             Brown, John, 1800-1859.
             Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
             Underground railroad.
             Fugitive slaves --United States --History --19th century.
             Slavery --United States --Anti-slavery movements.
             Abolitionists --United States --History --19th century.
             Afro-Americans --Music --19th century.
             Spirituals (Songs) --United States --History.
             Slavery --United States --Anti-slavery movements --Songs and 
               music.
             Slave trade --United States --History --19th century.
             Slavery --United States --History.
             Afro-Americans --History.
             Rochester (N.Y.) --History.
ALT AUTHOR   Overlan, John.
             Spurling, Ann.
             Tyson, Cicely.
             Tise, Larry E.
             Joyner, Charles W.
             Gara, Larry.
             Boyer, Horace Clarence, 1935-
             Parris, Alvin.
             Blockson, Charles L.
             Cyr, Paul.
             Gullo, Robert.
             Hayden, Robert C.
             WXXI (Television station : Rochester, N.Y.)
             Films for the Humanities (Firm)
ADD TITLE    Flight to freedom, the Underground Railroad [videorecording]
             Underground Railroad [videorecording]
OCLC #       34194506.