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Friday,
August 29, 2008
For the lifelong learner in each of us Here, you can embark
on an online fieldtrip and discover fascinating people, places, and events in
Maryland and beyond. MPT will also help you broaden your horizons through our
College of the Air service and PBS's GED Connection. Come explore! To
explore our site, move your mouse over the menus to the left. If the menus don't
appear, use one of these links to jump to one of our learner-oriented sites: Or visit one of our
other sections:
Check it out!
 Pathways
to Freedom:
Maryland and the
Underground Rail Road
It was a highly secretive system. Yet, it had none of the organization you might
expect. There were no rules or maps or lists of people involved. In fact, very
few people knew all its details – the routes that were best to take, the
houses where sympathetic people lived, even the language people used to talk
about it. They learned it as they needed to – when their lives as slaves
became too much to bear – or when their support was needed to help bring
others out of bondage.
It was the Underground Railroad – the unique collection of covert byways
and secret hiding places ı through which thousands of slaves in the south traveled
to freedom. Maryland – because of its location at the boundary of slave
and free states – and many of Marylandıs people - because of their bravery
and commitment to liberty and civil rights for all – were an important
part of this network.
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David Tauriello
LearningWorks Online Producer
Maryland Public Television
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