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The Underground Railroad

bringing slaves North to freedom
2003
The story of how slaves were brought northward to freedom before the Civil War.

Stealing freedom

2001
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.

The story of Harriet Tubman

freedom train
1954
Harriet Tubman, known as the Moses of her people, escapes slavery, then risks her life to bring other slaves to freedom up the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

antislavery activist
1990
Describes the life of the energetic abolitionist, including her origins as a slave in Maryland, her role as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad, her service to the Union during the Civil War, and her role in establishing an old-age home for Afro-Americans.

Trouble don't last

2003
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

North star conspiracy

1995
In 1854, while the rest of Seneca Falls, New York, gears up for the opening of a new theater, librarian/sleuth/women's rights activist Glynis Tryon investigates the death of a freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists.

Harriet Tubman

1999
A biography of Harriet Tubman, a woman who escaped slavery only to return many times to help lead other slaves to safety in the North.

The last safe house

a story of the Underground Railroad
1998
A fictional account of a slave family from the U.S. and a Canadian family who helps them escape by way of the Underground Railroad in 1856.

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the sky

1995
With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother.

Midnight journey

running for freedom on the Underground Railroad
2005
Abigail is shocked to discover that her parents are conductors on the Underground Railroad, but she quickly rises to the occasion when it falls to her to see a fifteen-year-old runaway slave to safety in a neighboring town.

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