{"id":2268,"date":"2020-06-24T01:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2020-08-19T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:15:52","slug":"our-classroom-friendly-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/our-classroom-friendly-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Classroom-Friendly Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students interns on our project have been producing a series of short video documentaries, each 2 to 4 minutes in length, describing important slave stampedes from Missouri in ways designed to help support secondary and college-level history classrooms.\u00a0 Take a look below or visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hdivided\">House Divided Project YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/the-1849-canton-stampede\/\">1849 CANTON STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>One of the very first mass escape attempts from Missouri identified as a &#8220;slave stampede&#8221; by the national press.\u00a0 This video describes the story of that failed attempt in 1849 and provides background on the origins of the term.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rljypOdyfxk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/st-genevieve-stampede\/\">1852 STE. GENEVIEVE STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This video explores how eight enslaved young men, described in vivid detail by their runaway ads, lost their chance for freedom when they were tricked and betrayed by residents of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bS1S4apQhww\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/the-1853-palmyra-stampede\/\">1853 PALMYRA STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A long-overlooked diary entry from an Illinois Underground Railroad operative provides the key for understanding this successful 1853 group escape of eleven enslaved people from Palmyra, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7NGnctVR0nc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/the-1854-st-louis-stampedes\/\">1854 ST. LOUIS STAMPEDES<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This video details the mounting frustration among pro-slavery forces in Missouri when two separate large groups of enslaved African American families managed to escape from their bondage successfully in November 1854.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xEsD5ORJFG4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/meachum-1855\/\">1855 MEACHUM \/ ST. LOUIS STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This documentary short profiles the role of Underground Railroad operative Mary Meachum in an attempt to free several enslaved people from St. Louis in the spring of 1855.\u00a0 Meachum was arrested but prosecutors dropped the charges against her.\u00a0 Today, people in the city annually commemorate her efforts (and the sacrifices of the captured enslaved families) at the Freedom Crossing site by the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P6pbNjfNwtI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/doy-escape\/\">1859 DOY \/ KANSAS STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Have you ever heard of Dr. John Doy?\u00a0 He was an ally of John Brown who also attempted to liberate enslaved families in 1859.\u00a0 Like Brown, Doy was captured, but his family and friends succeeded in rescuing him from a Missouri prison.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pdratrBnLo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/the-1859-lagrange-stampede\/\">1859 LAGRANGE STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This video highlights a successful stampede of more than ten freedom seekers from LaGrange, Missouri who eventually joined up in Chicago with about another twenty more runaways from three states, before they presumably escaped to Canada.\u00a0 Yet all of this happened in November 1859, just weeks after John Brown&#8217;s failed raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWgk5NR2MDU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/the-1861-harris-family-case\/\">1861 HARRIS FAMILY \/ CHICAGO STAMPEDE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This video tells the forgotten story behind the last attempt to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in Chicago.\u00a0 The result of the rendition of the Harris family in April 1861 was a so-called &#8220;stampede&#8221; 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