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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Vigilance Committee was organized by free blacks working with white abolitionists to protect blacks from kidnappers and slave catchers on the streets. Soon such committees proliferated in the North, and began a collaboration known as the Underground Railroad. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown. Building on fresh evidence, Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to history.
Author
Series
Refiner's fire volume 1
Language
English
Description
Book 1 in the Refiner's Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist...
4) Harriet
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the real-world experiences of passengers, conductors and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, who shaped history through their participation in the Underground Railroad, is complemented by reminiscences by BeForever character and escaped slave, Addy Walker.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations (black-&-white), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--a prophet, a printer, and a 'Contessa'--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad answers all of kids' most important questions about the Underground Railroad."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Although the institution of slavery had many supporters, there were also those who fought against it, seeking equality among races and genders. Many escaped slaves became vocal abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass and Robert Smalls. Heroes of the Underground Railroad, such as Harriet Tubman and John Parker, helped slaves escape into Canada. Other activists, writers, and leaders contributed to the cause as well. Learn about the lives of some...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Slavery did not end without an organized and impassioned struggle. Many Americans, both black and white, thought it was inhumane and morally wrong to enslave another human being, no matter the color of his or her skin, and fought for the freedom of enslaved Africans in the United States. Learn about these abolitionists and freedom fighters from colonial days through emancipation, and discover how their work brought the country as far as it has come."...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987
Lexile measure
1210L
Physical Desc
xxxi, 307 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 888 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new...