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Beyond these gates

Mountains of hope in Rochester's African-American history
An exploration of African-Americans buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Includes such notables as the Douglass family, The Sprague family, the Wycoff family and Dr. Charles T. Lunsford.

Huir hacia la libertad

While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself going back in time where, as a runaway slave, she uses the Underground Railroad to make her way to Canada.
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Harriet Tubman

liderar a los esclavos a la libertad
A brief biography of slave Harriet Tubman, who gained her own freedom and then helped other slaves get to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Unspoken

a story from the Underground Railroad
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.

Quie?n fue Harriet Tubman?

A brief biography of nineteenth-century former slave and abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, who is known for leading over 300 slaves to freedom in the North.

I came as a stranger

the Underground Railroad
Examines the history of the Underground Railroad, a network of people and safe refuges by which escaped slaves made their way north to freedom, focusing on the role of Canada in helping the fugitives create new, independent lives.

Harriet Tubman

abolitionist and conductor of the underground railroad
2018
A biography of Harriet Tubman, discussing her early life as a slave, her escape to freedom, and her many trips back to the South to lead other slaves to freedom in the North as a conductor on the Undergraound Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

2018
A brief introduction to the life of Harriet Tubman, who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

A brief illustrated biography of the African-American 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.

Under the quilt of night

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.

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