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Lectures in History

The Underground Railroad

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Norfolk State University history professor Cassandra Newby-Alexander discussed the history of the Underground Railroad and efforts to escape enslavement before the Civil War. Norfolk State is an historically black university in Norfolk, Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Between 1810 and 1850, the Underground Railroad helped to guide 100,000 enslaved people to freedom.

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I'm Shannon Rice, the podcast producer here, and this week The Lectures and History Podcast,

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examines the Underground Railroad.

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Norfolk State University history professor Cassandra Newby Alexander,

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discusses the history of the Underground Railroad

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