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Language
English
Description
A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this intriguing novel, master quilter Sylvia Compson comes across an heirloom quilt that muddles her heritage. She's always believed her ancestors were active in the Underground Railroad-but perhaps she's been mistaken.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the Underground Railroad, a group of people and places through which runaway slaves escaped to freedom before the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 173 pages : maps, illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous 'road' to freedom"--Provided by publisher.
6) Freedom
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben Hansby is determined to cast a young student, Kate Winter, in his musical as he guards his participation in the Underground Railroad, while Kate is determined to use the musical to flee from her mother's determination to marry her off to a wealthy suitor.
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before the Civil War, a network of secret routes and safe houses crisscrossed the Midwest to help African Americans travel north to escape slavery. Although many slaves were able to escape to the safety of Canada, others met untimely deaths on the treacherous journey--and some of these unfortunates still linger, unable to rest in peace. InHauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest, Jane Simon Ammeson investigates unforgettable and...
10) The last runaway
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is a rich and nuanced portrait of the woman known as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, who repeatedly risked her life and freedom to liberate others from slavery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Publisher
Christian History Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Tubman is a familiar and revered name in American history. But many are unfamiliar with the details of her remarkable story, the depth of her character, and the inner motivations that drove her. Born into slavery in Maryland in the 1820s, Harriet Tubman's resolute Christian faith would compel her to extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice. Through her selfless efforts, hundreds of African-American slaves escaped to freedom. Tubman's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the fugitive slave turned "conductor" on the Underground Railroad describes Tubman's youth in the South, her escape to Philadelphia, her efforts to liberate slaves, and her work for the Union Army.
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emily Harrison's life has been turned upside down. At the beginning of the Civil War, she bravely attempted to continue her parents' work as conductors in the Underground Railroad until their Ohio farm was sold in foreclosure. Now alone, she accepts a position as a governess with a doctor's family in slave-holding Virginia. Perhaps she can continue her rescue efforts from there. Alexander Hunt is the doctor's handsome nephew. While he does not deny...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
Physical Desc
xv, 540 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the Underground Railroad offers insight into the role played by westward expansion, the spiritual beliefs that motivated each side of the conflict, and the efforts of black and white citizens to save tens of thousands of lives.
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