underground railroad

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Escape into the night

1995
In 1857, twelve-year-old Libby joins her father aboard the Christina and proves that she can be trusted to assist in the escape of fugitive slaves.

Many thousand gone

African Americans from slavery to freedom
1996
Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

Harriet Tubman

Moses of the Underground Railroad
2001
Examines the life of Harriet Tubman, a woman who ran away from slavery in 1849 and spend her remaining years helping others reach freedom.

Harriet Tubman

2002
A brief biography of the life and struggles of escaped slave and famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, that describes her courage and faith in helping hundreds of slaves to freedom.

Harriet Tubman

leading slaves to freedom
2011
A brief biography of slave Harriet Tubman, who gained her own freedom and then helped other slaves get to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Under the quilt of night

2005
A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.

Harriet Tubman

conductor to freedom
2005
Presents a biography of the life of escaped slave, Harriet Tubman, who helped others to freedom on the Underground Railroad and who worked as a spy for the Union during the American Civil War.

Secret signs

along the Underground Railroad
2003
A deaf child helps pass information along the Underground Railroad using his paintbrush and a panoramic egg.

Mystery at Kittiwake Bay

2001
With help from her new friend Ryan, thirteen-year-old Cassie explores the mysteries surrounding a mansion in Maine that was once an Underground Railroad stop and is now a retirement home.

Runaway to freedom

a story of the Underground Railway
1979
Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.

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