Welcome to the Harry T. Burleigh Society

The Forgotten Giant of American Music
NEW DVD

It is our pleasure to introduce you to the DVD The Forgotten Giant of American Music. It is presented through the Harry T. Burleigh Society and funded by Erie Insurance Group. Singer-storyteller, Charles C. Kennedy Jr, tells the life of Harry T. Burleigh through songs and stories. Also included are interviews with others who knew the man or life of Harry T. Burleigh, a glossary of terms, and a teacher's guide concerning the life and work of Harry T. Burleigh.

Award-Winning DVD
produced by the Burleigh Society.
Safe Harbor - about the UGRR
in Northwestern Pennsylvania.

Click here to go to the Safe Harbor site.

Tour the Underground Railroad in the companion web site to Safe Harbor, a local production distributed nationally on public television. Find loads of lesson plans, original documents, transcripts from the film and an online travel guide.

To escape from slavery was no easy task. You could have your ear cut off if you were caught. Bloodhounds pursued with a vengeance. Obstacles emerged at every turn – in the forest, over mountains, or on the open road. But once you reached the shores of Lake Erie, you knew you had almost made it. And with the help of a few good people, you did.

Safe Harbor is an incredible story of strength and determination, told through the eyes of the fugitives themselves and the people who risked everything to help them. From free black communities to middle class white society, in small villages and on farms, they defied race and gender in one of the greatest survival stories of all time.