Bilingual Wednesday: English and Spanish

Set sail on a magical adventure every Wednesday with Lil' Mariners' Winter Wednesdays.

From 1830 to 1860, the City of Norfolk was the center of maritime activities in Hampton Roads as the Port of Virginia. These waterways transported goods to points North and enslaved human beings to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations. Yet, these same waterways that condemned so many to hard labor, separating families and causing so much pain, were also used to secure freedom for thousands through a locally autonomous system that fed into a national underground railroad network.

Ferreiro shares stories of how the Liberty Ship and the Landing Ship Tank brought vital arms, supplies, and troops to the front lines across the globe, culminating in Allied victories.