Trevor Hughes
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512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
Trevor Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, I was struck by how curious Americans are.
I don't mean weird people.
I mean, people were genuinely curious about our country.
I was doing a story on the Underground Railroad and I was visiting an area where Harriet Tubman had been born and had grown up.
And I was trying to film something and it's a middle of this cornfield and it's in rural, rural, rural Maryland.
And this couple rolled up in this giant fifth wheel with a big old pickup and they saw me filming and they had questions.
And I was like, well, I'm a reporter and I'm doing this.
And they just started popping out with Harriet Tubman facts because they had made this journey from somewhere in the Midwest because they wanted to sort of visit this trail of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
And they had facts at their fingertips because they had looked up, they had been reading about it.
That was one of the things I found most gratifying in doing this was how many Americans had a real interest in our history, good and bad.
I grew up as a boy scout and I learned all kinds of, you know, tricks and tips on how to survive in the wilderness, how to navigate, how to read maps.
And this part of Maryland where Harriet Tubman's from, it's flat, like real flat.
You can't.
It's really hard to know which way is north.
And so this idea that people would simply escape slavery just by running away.
It's not that simple.
I mean, in some cases, people lived on islands or peninsulas.
And that was the thing I was really struck by in looking at the Underground Railroad was how hard it must have been for people to do this.
the conditions in which they lived, the conditions in which they were kept, right, that they were forced to live in and how brutal it was.
I mean, Harriet Tubman made a number of journeys helping people escape.
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