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Harriet Tubman

Conductor on the Underground Railroad
1999
A biography of the famous woman who worked to free her people on the Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad

Text and photographs look at the Underground Railroad and discusses the acceptance of slavery as well as the rejection of it.
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Subway

Learn all about what it's like to ride a subway as well as the parts and people that make it go!.
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Before she was Harriet

2017
"Moses, General Tubman, Minty, Araminta, the woman we know today as Harriet Tubman went by many names. Each represented one of her many roles as a spy, as a liberator, as a suffragist, and more."--Provided by publisher.

Collective biographies of slave resistance heroes

Readers learn how escaped slaves turned social activists, political activists, journalists, and militant advocates helped end slavery.
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Moses

when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedon
Describes Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of slavery.

Qui?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.
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Beyond the Underground

Aunt Harriet, Moses of her people
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Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad

2007
This book recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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Voices from the Underground Railroad

In 1861, siblings Jeb and Mattie, and those who help and hinder them, tell in their own words the siblings' escape from slavery in Maryland and their experience on the Underground Railroad that takes them north to freedom in Massachusetts. Includes historical notes, notes from the author, further resources, and an endpaper map.
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