EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER |

Maryland
Public Television |
Gail Porter Long
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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 |
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CONTENT
DEVELOPMENT |
Ann Klimas
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Director, Instructional Design & Educational
Content |
Caroline
Payson |
Director,
Educational Services |
David
Tauriello |
Online
Producer, LearningWorks |
Carol
Jackson |
Director,
Educational Productions |
Jamila
White |
Consultant
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WRITING |
Ann Klimas |
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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 Slaverys History and Legacy in Maryland |
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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.
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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 OBryant-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 |
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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 |
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WEBSITE
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT |

Bean
Creative, Inc. |
Layla Masri
Keith Soares
Bill Setzer
Stuart Pham |
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Project Director
Director, Design & Development
Lead Web Developer
Lead Programmer |
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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
Boys Latin School |
FUNDING |

and by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education
Ready To Teach program |