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Jesus then said, "If you should be remaining in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will be making you free. " They answered him, "We have never been slaves of anyone. How are you saying that we shall be becoming free?" Jesus answered them, "I am saying to you that everyone who is doing sin, is a slave of sin. " As those people were deceived in Jesus' day, so are we even more deceived today! The truth is that the Jewish crowd to whom Jesus spoke were at that very time little more than slaves to the Roman Empire.

A series on the Underground Railroad in the Tri-State area; Sunday, Jan. 25: An overview of the Underground Railroad Today: Slavery and the path to freedom in West Virginia. Sunday, Feb. 8: A look at the history of Washington County and other parts of Maryland as slaves sought freedom. Sunday, Feb. 15: Fugitive slaves reached free soil when they crossed into Pennsylvania, but that did not mean they were safe from slave catchers. andrear@herald-mail.

Editor's note: This is the third part of a four-part series on the Underground Railroad in the Tri-State area: Sunday, Jan. 25: An overview of the Underground Railroad Sunday, Feb. 1: Slavery and the path to freedom in West Virginia. Today: A look at the history of Washington County and other parts of Maryland as slaves sought freedom. Sunday, Feb. 15: Fugitive slaves reached free soil when they crossed into Pennsylvania, but that did not mean they were safe from slave catchers.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Documenting the path and history of the Underground Railroad through Franklin County is a daunting task, precisely because those who used and operated it were acting in secret. Much of what is known about the system of routes and safe houses used by fleeing slaves is anecdotal - stories passed from generation to generation, rumors and old newspaper stories written decades after the Civil War ended the need for the Underground Railroad. In 2007, the Franklin County Underground Railroad Coalition was formed by the county's Visitors Bureau, which identified 20 sites with potential connections to the Underground Railroad, said Janet Pollard, director of the bureau.

Editor's note: This is the fourth and final part of a series on the Underground Railroad in the Tri-State area: Sunday, Jan. 25: An overview of the Underground Railroad Sunday, Feb. 1: Slavery and the path to freedom in West Virginia. Sunday, Feb. 8: A look at the history of Washington County and other parts of Maryland as slaves sought freedom. Today: Fugitive slaves reached free soil when they crossed into Pennsylvania, but that did not mean they were safe from slave catchers.

The American Civil War has been very good for a Charles Town author who, in the last six years, has been researching the area's history for material for historical novels based on real people and real situations connected with that conflict. Bob O'Connor has just finished his fifth novel, “The Return of Catesby,” the story of a slave who was born in Jefferson County. The latest is a sequel to “Catesby: Eyewitness to the Civil War,” which O'Connor published in 2008. The new book comes out in January.

katec@herald-mail.com There were 23,110 casualties at the battle of Antietam. The Civil War - skirmishes, battles and disease - took the lives of more than 610,000 Union and Confederate soldiers. Beyond the mind-numbing numbers are the personal stories of families and communities affected by the fighting. What effect did the war have on women - the wives, the mothers, the sisters, the friends of those soldiers? The war's impact on some women of the period is well-known.

Chalky, gritty, funny-shaped candies of old are Susan Benjamin's windows into history. And history never tasted so sweet. "Put this in your mouth and close your eyes," said Benjamin, an author, former journalist and, more recently, a candy researcher. "Now imagine you're very cold and you're fighting in the Civil War. You're in a ditch somewhere. This is what you may have been eating when you felt bad or needed some energy. That's the real flavor. " "How often do you get that?"

It's funny how beloved Quentin Tarantino is as a director despite the shortness of his filmography. Ignoring his work with television and contributions to anthology films (I'm willing to forget his awful segment of "Grindhouse" if you are), the man has only seven feature credits to his name, including his newest, "Django Unchained. " Yet I and many others consider Tarantino a genius because this oh-so-short filmography includes films like "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), "Pulp Fiction" (1994)

Review Picture this: You are in church. As everyone stands for the next hymn, you recognize the song in just a few notes from the organ, and you all begin to sing "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound. " Sure, you've known that song practically your whole life. But do you know who wrote it? Or what it means? I bet not. The song is now the theme of the movie "Amazing Grace," which tells a story of one man's life and his fight for the abolition of the British slave trade in the late 1700s and early 1800s.