Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad
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Many thanks to the fine folks who got together to bring you Pathways to Freedom: Maryland & the Underground Railroad:

 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Maryland Public Television
Maryland Public Television
Gail Porter Long
Senior Vice President, Chief Education Officer
Christie Timms Vice President, Education
Caroline Payson Director, Educational Services
Carol Jackson Director, Educational Productions
Ann Klimas Director, Instructional Design & Educational Content
Betsy Peisach Director of Schools Marketing
David Tauriello Online Producer, LearningWorks
 CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Ann Klimas
Director, Instructional Design & Educational Content
Caroline Payson Director, Educational Services
David Tauriello Online Producer, LearningWorks
Carol Jackson Director, Educational Productions
Jamila White Consultant
 WRITING
Ann Klimas Director, Instructional Design & Educational Content
Dr. Suzanne E. Chapelle History Department Faculty, Morgan State University
The Maryland State Archives The Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration and Impact of Slavery’s History and Legacy in Maryland
 MUSIC

Wade in the Water  
By the Fisk Jubilee Singers from the recording entitled Wade in the Water, Vol. 1: African American Spirituals: The Concert Tradition, Smithsonian Folkways SF40072, © 1994, Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
By Kehembe Eichelberger from the recording entitled Wade in the Water, Vol. 1: African-American Spirituals: The Concert Tradition, Smithsonian Folkways, SFSF40072, © 1994, Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Steal Away to Jesus
By Kinsey West from the recording entitled Every Tone a Testimony, Smithsonian Folkways, SF47003, © 2001, Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Follow the Drinking Gourd
By Kim and Reggie Harris from the recording entitled Steal Away, Songs of the Underground Railroad, © 1999. Courtesy of Appleseed Recordings.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
By the Morgan State Choir, from the production entitled Morgan Choir: A Joyous Celebration. © Maryland Public Television.

 IMAGES
Quilt images
Courtesy of Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard. Many of these images are in their book Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1999. First Anchor Books edition © 2000.

Image of “Harriet Powers: A Darling Offspring of Her Brain”
Quilt courtesy Dr. Marlene O’Bryant-Seabrook.

Video clips
From the MPT production Crossings © Maryland Public Television.

Historical Images, letters, transcripts site-wide, courtesty of:
  ·    The Maryland Historical Society
  ·    The Maryland State Archives
  ·    The Library of Congress
 NARRATION
Site Narrator - Diana Hopkins

Eyewitness to History:
Harriet Tubman - Donise Stevens

Caroline Hammond - Donise Stevens

Josiah Henson - Jeorge Watson

Frederick Douglas - Jeorge Watson

Charles Ball - William E. Rustin

James Pennington - Lawrence K. Boyd

Following the Footsteps:
Story Narrator - Donise Stevens
 WEBSITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Bean Creative Funktional Web Design
Bean Creative, Inc.
Layla Masri
Keith Soares
Bill Setzer
Stuart Pham
Project Director
Director, Design & Development
Lead Web Developer
Lead Programmer
 ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Thomas Battle, Director
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

Gary Brennan, Social Studies Department Chair
Governor Thomas Johnson High School, Frederick County Public Schools

Dr. Robert Cataliotti, Music Department Faculty
Coppin State College

Dr. Suzanne E. Chapelle, History Department Faculty
Morgan State University

Nancy Davis, Museum Deputy Director
Maryland Historical Society

Dr. Raymond Dobard, Art Department Faculty
Howard University

Dr. John George, Curriculum Specialist for Social Studies, K-5
Frederick County Public Schools

Lisa Kissinger, President
Maryland Council for Social Studies
Social Studies Coordinator, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Mercer Neal, Social Studies Department Chair
Boy’s Latin School
 FUNDING
Star Schools
and by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Ready To Teach program


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