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Flight to Freedom
With support through summer fellowships funded by John Gibbons, this web-based educational role-playing game simulates the experience of fugitive slaves in the American South before the U.S. Civil War. Users assume the persona of an actual historical figure, such as Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass, and move about a map of the nineteenth-century United States as they are confronted with events taken from fugitive slave narratives. Bowdoin undergraduates created the historical content for the simulation and designed web sites providing historical background for the period. High school students are the target audience for this project.
- Collaborators:
- Patrick Rael, Department of History, Bowdoin College
- Education and Research Consulting, Bowdoin College