Whispers Of Angels Film Summary

Whispers of Angels, A Story of the Underground Railroad, is an extremely interesting film, which contains illustrations of some of history’s primary materials and also interviews with scholars who assist in providing the images and the context of this story about the Underground Railroad, the stretched from Maryland, to Delaware, to Philadelphia, making a route to freedom for slaves in America before the Civil War. In this film scholars such as James Oliver Horton, who is the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University and Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and Charles Blockson, a black studies scholar and author assist in unraveling the documents …show more content…
William Still, was a free African-American who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the conductor on the Underground Railroad, which was a person who helped slaves escape and would go into slave territories to get slave to bring them out. There were many other railroad terms used in the Underground Railroad to identify who people were and what the houses were used for. For example, houses and barn were people where to help the slaves were called Stations, the people in them were called Station Masters, people who contributed money were call Stockholders and the people who kept watch were called Pilots. All terms for the Underground Railroad. Still was also a historian and civil rights activist, and the chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Thomas Garrett was a white American abolitionist and Quaker, he was a part of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1818. He lived in Wilmington, Delaware, where he made his home into a station for the Underground Railroad and helped an abundant of slaves to freedom. Garrett worked on the Railroad as a stationmaster, which