Wednesday, 5 March 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "Roots of Resistance -- A Story of the Underground Railroad" PBS Video in The American Experience series. In the mid-1800s, black men and women traveled a network of escape routes known as the underground railroad. Over dark forest trails, back roads and rivers, they made their way along carefully mapped routes leading to night trains to the north or boats to the south. Their flight from the shackles of slavery in the south was organized by other escaped slaves and their allies. This program recounts the little-known story of black America's secret railroad to freedom through narratives of escaped slaves. Viewers listen to interviews with descendents of slaves and slaveholders describing personal danger and terrible risks involved in each slave's departure. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, even a successful flight to free territory didn't guarantee freedom from professional slave catchers who hunted down these men and women and returned them to a life of bondage on southern plantations. D-OGS Meeting will be held on: Wednesday evening, 5 March 2008 at 7 p.m. Duke Homestead Visitor's Center 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm ********************************