Destination Freedom: Old-Time Radio Drama Anthology

Destination Freedom: “The Making of a Man”, first broadcast on July 25, 1948. Old-time radio drama anthology.

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Destination Freedom: “Saga of Denmark Vesey”, first broadcast on July 18, 1948. Old-time radio drama anthology.

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In 1541 in Peru, Omar, an Indian slave, and Alvaro, a Negro slave and former teacher from Seville, dig a grave for the murdered explorer Francisco Pizarro. As they work, Alvaro recalls his past, including his service as a pilot with Christopher Columbus and his later journeys alongside the explorers Balboa and Cortez. Alvaro reflects on the greed and violence each man brought to the New World. The episode is the chapter Dark Explorers in the Destination Freedom series, which dramatizes the history of Negro Americans, and it was first broadcast on July 11, 1948.

With Omar, Alvaro, Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, Balboa, Cortez, Alonso Nino, Rillan.

Listen for: Alvaro's recollections of sailing with Columbus, Balboa's execution, and Cortez's conquest of Mexico, as Alvaro reflects on the explorers' greed.

First aired on July 11, 1948.

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Harriet Tubman, a young woman enslaved on a Maryland plantation, is injured when she blocks an overseer from beating a fellow slave. During a long illness she dreams of freedom, and after returning to work in the fields she decides to escape. She sets out alone at night, following the North Star, and reaches a farmhouse where a Quaker family hears her plea. This episode of Destination Freedom, a radio series from 1948, dramatizes her early life in the chapter Railway to Freedom.

With Harriet Tubman, Saul, George, Lewis, Mrs. Torpitz, Hannah, Levi, Master Bo.

Listen for: Harriet's inner voices and dreams, and her decision to leave her brothers and head north alone

First aired on July 4, 1948.

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In 1770 Boston, British soldiers hunt a runaway slave named Christmas Attics, who has become a leader among the colonists resisting the king's laws. Twenty years earlier, his former master, Cyrus Brown of Farmington, placed a newspaper advertisement offering a reward for his return. Attics flees through the New England hills, is sheltered by a Quaker farmer named Abigail's father, and finds work on a whaler captained by a skipper whose brother had sent him there. Angus, the skipper, and his crew are drawn into the growing resistance, and the story follows Attics as he takes his place among the townspeople of Boston. Destination Freedom, a WMAQ radio series produced with the Chicago Defender, presents the episode, which was first broadcast on June 27, 1948.

With Christmas Attics, Captain Cox, Cyrus Brown, Abigail, Abigail's father, Skipper Kirkland, Alex, Angus.

Listen for: The Liberty Tree speech and the laughter of the sailors on the docks

First aired on June 27, 1948.

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