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From slavery to freedom

2003
Introduces the Underground Railroad, a group of people and places through which runaway slaves escaped to freedom before the Civil War.

Beyond the river

the untold story of the heroes of the Underground Railroad
2002
Tells the story of the abolitionists of the Ohio River town of Ripley, focusing on the work of Presbyterian minister John Rankin whose hilltop house stood as a beacon to slaves trying to reach the Underground Railroad.

A different kind of Christmas

1988
A sophomore at Princeton in 1955, southerner Fletcher Randall meets a group of Quaker Friends and eventually becomes involved in the Underground Railroad.

Escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad

2008
Explores the history of the Underground Railroad, a network of people who helped slaves escape bondage and reach safety and freedom in the North.

Soon be free

a companion to Steal away home
2000
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.

If I just had two wings

2001
In 1861, thirteen-year-old Phoebe runs away from her master's Alabama plantation and joins four other slaves as they journey to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

Steal away home

1999
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.

Life on the Underground Railroad

2000
Describes what it was like to be involved in the Underground Railroad, discussing life on the run, the lives of the trackers, conductors, and stationmasters, and the building of new lives in Canada.

Lost in the tunnel of time

1996
Ziggy, Rico, Rashawn, and Jerome, four curious African-American kids, find themselves trapped in an Underground Railroad passageway under their school, with no way out but to travel its tunnels as escaped slaves did over one hundred years before.

From Midnight to Dawn

the last tracks of the Underground Railroad
2007
Traces the journeys of fugitive ex-slaves from the United States to free black settlements in Canada via the Underground Railroad.

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