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The Underground Railroad

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1h 32min | Aired on Feb 20, 1999 | TV-PG V | CC |

The Underground Railroad was a secret network that smuggled escaped enslaved people from the South to free states in the North and Canada. Join descendants and scholars as they tell the story of America's first civil rights movement.

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