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Transcript:
Background music:"My Old Kentucky Home" played by banjo and harmonica plays throughout.
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For many runaway slaves, Pennsylvania was the final stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Zoom into woman slave in cotton field, a runaway slave quietly treading through water.
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Most fugitives came from nearby slave states like Maryland, Delaware and Virginia...
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Another escaped slave walking through a forest.
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...and they would hide away in series of barns and caves as they made their way north.
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Zoom into an old barn in a field, a cave on the side of a mountain.
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Many slaves ended up in Philadelphia with the help of Underground Railroad organizer William Still...
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Philadelphia Convention on Slavery newspaper article, pan of another newspaper article and portrait of Still.
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...and Bishop Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Zoom out of stained glass window portrait of Richard Allen.
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In communities all over the state, African Americans joined with others to aid fugitives and fight slavery.
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Zooming shot of a photo of a civil war-era African American community, a photo of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society members.
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And throughout the Civil War, many of the leaders of the Underground Railroad continued to fight for the freedom of all people.
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A statue of a Union soldier silhouetted against the sun, pan of photo of an African American Union officer in uniform.
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