underground railroad

Surveys the life of Harriet Tubman, including her childhood in slavery and her later work in helping other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

A brief biography of the woman who escaped life as a slave and then rescued hundreds of other slaves as a conductor in the underground railroad.

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.

Presents an overview of the history of abolitionism in the United States, including information on the Underground Railroad with an emphasis on pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments used up until the Civil War.

A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.

In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.

Explains what the Underground Railroad was, why slaves ran away, and how they were helped to escape.

Explores the conditions of slave life in America before the Civil War and how the Undergroud Railroad operated, showcasing famous conductors like Harriet Tubman and John Rankin, what life was like after a slave had escaped, and how slavery was permanently ended in the U.S.

A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Young Kezia is a slave, living in nineteenth-century Fredericksburg, Virginia, until her mother helps her escape. Includes historical notes.