These classroom-appropriate video clips are from the MPT Production, Crossings. If you’d like to view these clips, you will need to have a Real Media player on your computer.
This segment discusses the early years of Harriet Tubman’s life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, including an incident that may have shaped her future as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
In this clip, recorded at Bazel’s Church in Bucktown, Maryland, the secret messages contained in two spirituals is explained.
Maryland churches provided sanctuary for escaping slaves in many ways, as this video illustrates.
