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Escape to Freedom

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1h 31min | Aired on May 26, 2005 | TV-14 V,L | CC |

This 2-hour special features stories about the brutal system of slave policing—enforced by armed community patrols, paid slave catchers and federal law—as well as slave resistance, from the colonial era through the Civil War and its aftermath.

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