Destination Freedom: The Knock-Kneed Man (1948)

Destination Freedom: Old-Time Radio Drama Anthology · Oct 29, 2026 · 29m

In 1770 Boston, British soldiers hunt a runaway slave named Christmas Attics, who has become a leader among the colonists resisting the king's laws. Twenty years earlier, his former master, Cyrus Brown of Farmington, placed a newspaper advertisement offering a reward for his return. Attics flees through the New England hills, is sheltered by a Quaker farmer named Abigail's father, and finds work on a whaler captained by a skipper whose brother had sent him there. Angus, the skipper, and his crew are drawn into the growing resistance, and the story follows Attics as he takes his…