![]() We see Harriet Tubman running slaves north. We hear the oratory of Frederick Douglass. ![]() In the course of the telling of his adventure, we get a pretty complete lesson in the history of North American abolitionism. Under the cover of doing ornithological field research, he secretly organizes an escape for four slaves. Fortunately there was still Canada, and that’s the theme here in this Canadian made-for-TV movie.Īt the center of this story is a young Canadian abolitionist who travels to the South on his first mission for the Underground iRailroad. As a result, fugitive slaves were pursued by bounty hunters all over the United States. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, a law that diminished the relative safety of the North as a haven for escaped slaves by overriding state laws protecting them. The main point here is that much of the operation of the Underground Railroad would never have been possible without Canada. “ Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad isn’t just an abolitionist-as-hero movie.
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