underground railroad

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underground railroad

Runaway slaves

  • Coddon, Karin S
2004
Provides over twenty articles from the era of slavery in which slaves and abolitionists discuss the experience of fleeing slavery, the perils and punishments of trying to escape, efforts to assist runaways, and obstacles to freedom.

Silent thunder

a Civil War story
  • Pinkney, Andrea Davis
2000

Harriet Tubman

1996
Witness the daring exploits of the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, a woman who helped more than 300 African Americans escape from slavery in the southern states.

Roots of resistance

a story of the underground railroad
  • Dee, Ruby
1990
Uses archival films, photos and recollections to tell of the efforts made by slaves to escape the South into the North and Canada prior to the Civil War.

Who conducted the Underground Railroad?

and other questions about the path to freedom
  • Roop, Peter
2008

Evvy's civil war

  • Brenaman, Miriam
2004
In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.

Escape

a story of the Underground Railroad
  • Gayle, Sharon Shavers
2000
While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.

Harriet Tubman, secret agent

how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War
  • Allen, Thomas B
2009
Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and other slaves and free African-Americans who risked death to gather information about the Confederacy for the Union during the Civil War.

The underground rail road

a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of s
  • Still, William
1970

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