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Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad
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Ann Lane Petry |
A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground railroad. |
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A Picture Book Of Harriet Tubman
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David A. Adler,Samuel Byrd |
Biography of the black woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
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Soon be free
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Lois Ruby |
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1… |
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Freedom Run
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Paul McCusker |
Jack and Matt use the Imagination Station to travel back in time again to the pre-Civil War South, where they plan to carry out their promise to help two slaves escape through the Underground Railroa… |
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Wild escapade
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Lisa Bingham |
Her highly acclaimed Sweet trilogy captivated readers. Now Bingham begins her most high-spirited trilogy yet. Delicious sexual tension and delightful humor give the series an irresistible start, with… |
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Unspoken, a story from the underground railroad
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Henry Cole |
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him. |
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The amazing Underground Railroad
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Kem Knapp Sawyer |
"Read about how slaves from the South tried to escape to freedom by use of what became known as The Underground Railroad"--Provided by publisher. |
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The other side of free
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Krista Russell |
In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of P… |
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Chasing freedom
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Nikki Grimes |
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's ri… |
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River runs deep
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Jennifer Bradbury |
Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Ra… |
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Midnight rescue
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Lois Walfrid Johnson |
In 1857, having arrived in Minnesota Territory on her father's steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby continues to harbor the runaway slave boy Jordan while worrying about a fugitive who has escaped from t… |
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The swindler's treasure
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Lois Walfrid Johnson |
In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave … |
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Beyond the River
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Ann Hagedorn |
"The decades preceding the Civil War were rife with fierce sectarian violence along the borders between slave and free states. The Ohio River was one such border. Here in the river towns of Ohio and … |
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Young Indiana Jones and the plantation treasure
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William McCay |
In the spring of 1913, fourteen-year-old Indiana Jones traces the route of the Underground Railroad to help a young woman find her family fortune lost before the Civil War. |
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Harriet Tubman
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Nancy J. Nielsen |
A biography of the African American woman best known for her work with the Underground Railroad, describing her childhood as a slave, her escape to the North, her assistance to the Union cause during… |
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The Underground Railroad
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Ruth Ashby |
Discusses the history of the institution of slavery in the United States, abolitionism and other resistance movements, and the structure, as well as some outstanding people involved with, the Undergr… |
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Aquila's drinking gourd
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Pamela Dell |
In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so s… |
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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin
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Levi Coffin |
Levi Coffin (1798-1877) was a Quaker who, with his wife Catharine, sheltered over a hundred escaping slaves per year while living in Fountain City (then Newport) in Wayne County, IN from 1826 to 1847… |
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Follow Drinking Gourd
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Jeanette Winter |
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. |
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Steal away
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Jennifer L. Armstrong |
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two… |
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