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Many Thousand Gone
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Virginia Hamilton |
Summary, Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways. |
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The House of Dies Drear
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Virginia Hamilton |
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. |
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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad
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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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Dear Austin
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Elvira Woodruff |
Dear Austin is a book about Eleven year old Levi and his friends Jupiter and Possum, in Pennsylvania. Throuout the book Levi is writing letters to his older brother Austin. Levi lives with Miss Amel… |
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The black bonnet
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Louella Bryant |
As they near the end of their journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad, twelve-year-old Charity and her sixteen-year-old sister Bea encounter additional perils. |
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Harriet Tubman
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Kem Knapp Sawyer |
An illustrated exploration of the life of Harriet Tubman that covers her childhood, experiences as a slave, escape to freedom, work on the Underground Railroad, antislavery activism, and other topics. |
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Bound for the North Star
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Dennis B. Fradin |
Twelve accounts of slaves who escaped the South hoping for freedom and a new life. |
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President of the Underground Railroad
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Gwenyth Swain |
A biography of a Quaker man from North Carolina whose fearless work on the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio helped thousands of men and women escape the cruelty of slavery. |
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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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Harriet Tubman
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Janet Benge |
A narrative biography of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led others to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
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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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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 life of Harriet Tubman
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Emma Lynch |
One of a series of biographies of famous figures aimed at young readers aged 5-7. |
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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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Bound for Canaan
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Fergus M. Bordewich |
With a historian's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for story, Fergus M. Bordewich has written a grand epic of American history — focusing on the sixty years leading up to the Civil War, which br… |
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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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Christmas John and the night boat
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Margot Theis Raven |
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s. |
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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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The runaway quilt
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Jennifer Chiaverini |
In Book 4 of the Elm Creek Quilts series, Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' courageous involvement in the Underground Railroad.
Alerted to the possibility that her family had ti… |
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