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Documentary Element
Whispers of Angels tells the story of the critical Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and its role in the 19th century anti-slavery movement in America. Dramatic narrative scenes, underscored with specially recorded period music, and interviews with top scholars explore themes of courage and racial cooperation in the years leading up to the Civil War.

This poignant film from the award-winning TELEDUCTION team focuses on the collaboration between white Quaker Abolitionist Thomas Garrett and William Still, a free, black anti-slavery activist. Their effort to help "conduct" thousands of fugitives to freedom, with the help of the legendary Harriet Tubman, is at the center of this story about the "corridor of courage" that stretched from Maryland's Eastern Shore through Delaware to the streets of Philadelphia and ever north.

Renowned actors Edward Asner and Blair Underwood (L.A.Law, Full Frontal), along with a superb supporting cast, portray scenes from the lives of Garrett, Still, and the people to whom they dedicated their lives. Scenes filmed on location in the historical settings where these freedom fighters undertook their noble and dangerous work lend an authentic air to the production.

Virtually unexplored in films about this era, William Still's landmark book, The Underground Railroad, is the most substantial surviving first person account of the secret activities of this anti-slavery movement. Still courageously archived his correspondence with Thomas Garrett in spite of severe penalties that were reserved for proven fugitive-helpers. He further documented hundreds of eyewitness accounts of harrowing escapes from the bonds of slavery. The result of this brave work, Still's book, provides the narrative backdrop for Whispers of Angels.

Whispers of Angels takes its viewers along the very roads traveled by the weary fugitives fleeing the south, through the historic Delaware communities of Camden, Dover, Odessa, New Castle and Wilmington. "Conductors" secretly led escaping slaves north over the St. Jones, Christina and Brandywine rivers and across the Mason Dixon Line into Pennsylvania where many traveled onward as far as Canada, where (prior to the passage of the Second Fugitive Slave Law) British law forbade slave catchers and frustrated former owners from chasing and recovering what they considered lost "property".

Website Element
A content-rich website, www.whispersofangels.com, provides a virtual study guide and informational companion to the docudrama. Biographies of major figures and unsung heroes of the underground railroad, political and historical background information, maps of clandestine escape routes and locations of existing landmarks, discussions on the lasting legacy of the struggle for freedom.