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Harriet Tubman

1988
Harriet Tubman tells what it was like to grow up as a slave, escape to freedom, and go behind enemy lines during the Civil War.

Freedom crossing

1980
When Laura returns to her home in New York after living with her aunt and uncle in Virginia for four years, she discovers that her father and brother are helping runaway slaves escape to Canada.

Message in the sky

2003
Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.

The Underground Railroad and the Civil War

2000
Describes the loosely organized networks of people, both free and slave, who helped fugitives from the South escape slavery to freedom in the North or in Canada.

The drinking gourd

a story of the underground railroad
1993
Sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad.

Learning about bravery from the life of Harriet Tubman

1996
Demonstrates how bravery enabled Harriet Tubman, a slave, to escape to freedom, and subsequently bring more than 300 other people out of bondage.

Go free or die

a story about Harriet Tubman
1988
A biography of the African-American woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman and Black history month

1990
Examines the experiences of the runaway slave who risked her life to help others through the Underground Railroad.

Freedom's a-callin me

2012
Reimagines the journeys of the brave men and women who made their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad in fifteen poems.

Harriet Tubman

leader of the Underground Railroad
2001
Text and illustrations chronicle the life of Harriet Tubman, who helped African-American slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad; also includes a glossary, a Tubman chronology, a Civil War time line, and a bibliography.

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