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Harriet Tubman

2008
Offers a brief overview of the life of Harriet Tubman, discussing her childhood in slavery, years of freedom, involvement in the Underground Railroad, and other related topics.

Meet Addy

an American girl
1998
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.

Harriet and the Promised Land

1997
A poem relating the dedicated efforts of Harriet Tubman to lead her fellow slaves to freedom.

Cezanne Pinto

a memoir
1997
In his old age Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his escape to a new life in the North.

Harriet Tubman

2008
Chronicles the life of Harriet Tubman, discussing her childhood as a slave, marriage, years working the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to freedom, and other related topics.

The Underground Railroad

life on the road to freedom
1993
Explores the most active years of the Underground Railroad through accounts of slaves who followed the route to freedom and others who were involved in, or have studied, the abolitionist movement.

And why not every man?

an account of slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the road to freedom in New York's southern tier
1987

Harriet Tubman

2013
Text and photographs introduce the biography of Harriet Tubman, the African American woman who helped many slaves escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

The mystery of the vanishing slaves

2004
Provides information about slavery, focusing on stories of how slaves managed to escape southern plantations and make their way to freedom in the North.

Ghost hotel

1994
Mysteriously drawn to an Indiana museum, a twelve-year-old paralyzed girl encounters ghosts who return her to a former life, where she attempts to save the son of a freed slave traveling by Underground Railroad in.

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