Describes the history of the Underground Railroad, revealing historical details through the perspectives of a slave, a slave catcher, and someone helping slaves escape to freedom.
An illustrated introduction to Harriet Tubman, a woman who escaped slavery and risked her life to lead other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
The Winter of 1850 finds young Louis alone with his mother when his father heads north for work, but when runaway slaves ask Louis for help being ferryed across the Detroit River he wonders what his father would do.
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
Surveys the life of Harriet Tubman, who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
