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Long road to freedom

2016
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.

The underground railroad

a novel
2016
"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels."--Provided by publisher.

The Underground Railroad

2014
Looks at the history of the Underground Railroad through the eyes of a slave, a slave owner, and a conductor on the railroad.

Harriet Tubman

2016
A brief 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.

The Underground Railroad

2009
A brief history of slavery in America, the development of the Underground Railroad, and efforts by the South to maintain its slave-holding policies.

Harriet Tubman

1985
A biography of the black woman who escaped from slavery and became a well-known figure in the underground railroad as she led scores of slaves north to freedom.

If you traveled on the underground railroad

1992
Discusses the underground railroad and the groups of individuals who aided slaves in escaping captivity during the 19th century.

Chasing freedom

the life journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, inspired by historical facts
2015
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 rights.

Harriet Tubman

the road to freedom
2006
The biography of a slave whose flight to freedom was the first step in her becoming a "conductor" on the underground railroad.

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