underground railroad

After the sale of her mother at a slave auction tears apart her family, Lisa runs away to avoid the same fate.

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.

In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.

Chronicles the life and times of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.

Uses archival films, photos and recollections to tell of the efforts made to get fugitive slaves out of the South at the time of the Civil War.

After Byron receives a whipping for stealing a ham for his pregnant wife and she dies giving birth to twins, Byron decides to escape slavery via the Underground Railroad.