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The value of helping

the story of Harriet Tubman
1979
Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding slaves to flee the South, in assisting the Union army during the Civil War, and in establishing homes for the old and needy after the war.

True north

a nove of the Underground Railroad
1996
Afrika is fleeing slavery, following the North Star, and using the Underground Railroad. In Boston, Lucy has stumbled upon the Underground Railroad and is recruited to help out. The two girls lives grow closer and closer together.

Steal away

1993
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

A picture of Freedom

the story of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859
1999
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

Underground Railroad

1998
A new documentary that unveils the history, heroes and villians of the Abolitionist movement.

Harriet Tubman

conductor on the Underground Railroad
1996
A biography of the famous woman who worked to free her people on the Underground Railroad.

Unspoken

a story from the Underground Railroad
2012
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.

There's a dead person following my sister around

2008
Eleven-year-old Ted becomes concerned and intrigued when his five-year-old sister Vicki begins receiving visits from two female ghosts.

Trouble don't last

2002
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

January's sparrow

2009
After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation, traveling north through the Underground Railroad in search of freedom.

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