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This two-DVD set from filmmaker Jenkins (Negroes To Hire: Slave Life and Culture on Antebellum Missouri Farms) uses primary source material and interviews with archivists, historians, and slave descendants to tell the story of the Underground Railroad in the Western states. Beginning with the political turmoil that surrounded the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Jenkins chronicles the antislavery movement as it developed in the Western states and follows the story through th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More