underground railroad

Discusses the network of groups and individuals throughout Ohio and the New England states who aided slaves escaping from their captivity during the nineteenth century.

Joshua and his family, runaway slaves from a tobacco plantation in Kentucky, follow the Underground Railroad to freedom.

A biography of the runaway slave who risked her life to help other slaves escape to freedom.

The biography of a slave whose flight to freedom was the first step in her becoming a "conductor" on the underground railroad.

Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.

Eleven-year-old Ted becomes concerned and intrigued when his five-year-old sister Vicki begins receiving visits from two female ghosts.

Examines the life of Harriet Tubman, who escaped to the North in 1849 from Maryland and who returned to the South several times to lead over three hundred slaves to freedom and discusses her work during the Civil War as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy for the Union army.

By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

Presents a biography about Harriet Tubman, who escaped to the north from Maryland and later returned several times to lead over three hundred other slaves to freedom.