underground railroad

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 young slave girl sets off north with her brother and mother, following the star in the Drinking Gourd, or Big Dipper, that points to freedom.

At the dedication of a school named after him, an old former slave tells the story of his life and how, with the help of a white friend, he managed to save money to build a school for black children in Ohio by being repeatedly sold into slavery and escaping.

Teen psychics Jinx MacKenzie and Max Myers swirl back through history in the Time Tunnel, landing in 1851 to become conductors on the Underground Railroad.

An account of how the Underground Railroad helped slaves to escape to freedom before the Civil War.

Hannah Brown, granddaughter of the most active abolitionist in slave-holding Northern Virginia, corresponds with Sarah Smith, daughter of conductors on the Underground Railroad in the free state of Pennsylvania.

Sixteen-year-old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves, and help them reach their brother in Canada.

A biography of the courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to become a heroic figure in the Underground Railroad.

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.

Pictures, photographs, and text describe the history of American slavery and the Underground Railroad.