I had traveled here to Henson’s last home — now a ___(1)___ site that Carter formerly directed — to learn more about a man who was, in many ways, an African-American Moses. After winning his own freedom from ___(2)_____, Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada — and ___(3)____. Many ___(4)____ here in Dresden with him. Yet this stop was only part of a much larger ___(5)____ for me. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of ___(6)____ men and women who together ___(7)____ the Underground Railroad, a secret ___(8)___ of escape ___(9)____ and safe houses that they used to ___(10) ____ slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom. In October 2000, President Clinton ___(11)____ $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to ___ (12)____ this first great ___(13)____ struggle in the U. S. The center ___(14)____ open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And it’s about time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain ___(15)____, their exploits still _____(16)_____. I ___ (17) _______ telling their stories.