Underground Railroad people
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to the mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada.
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Frederick Douglass
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the prominent abolitionist, who in 1845 told his story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
9 February 2018
Featuring: Celeste-Marie Bernier, Karen Salt, Nicholas Guyatt
HistoryAnglican saints19th-century male writers19th-century American male writersDeaths from coronary thrombosisAmerican male journalistsAmerican lecturersActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican autobiographersWriters from Baltimore19th-century American businesspeopleUnderground Railroad peoplePeople of the Six Years' War, 19th-century American memoiristsThoreau and the American Idyll
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American 19th century writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau
15 January 2009
Featuring: Kathleen Burk, Tim Morris, Stephen Fender
PhilosophyPhilosophers of historyPantheistsPhilosophers of loveHall of Fame for Great Americans inducteesAmerican male non-fiction writersCritics of work and the work ethicAnti-consumeristsSimple living advocates19th-century American poetsAmerican political philosophers19th-century American essayistsAnarchist writersAmerican lecturers19th-century American philosophersAmerican philosophers of culture19th-century deaths from tuberculosis19th-century American non-fiction writersAmerican spiritual writersUnderground Railroad peoplePhilosophers from MassachusettsAmerican male essayists, American male poetsAmerican philosophers of science, American philosophers of mind