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Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Willie along the way.
Author
Lexile measure
AD 850L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother. When Cassie Louise Lightfoot encounters Harriet Tubman and a mysterious train in the sky, "what follows is a compelling journey in which the author masterfully integrates fantasy and historical fact" (School Library Journal, starred review). Includes historical information on Harriet Tubman and...
Author
Publisher
Pond Dakota Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Separated from his mother when their master sold her, Joseph Godfrey grew up in bondage serving Minnesota's fur-trade elite. Escaping his masters' beatings, Godfrey sought refuge among the Dakota Indians who had befriended him as a child slave. Conscripted to join Dakota warriors in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Godfrey became the first of hundreds of men tried by a military court when the six-week war ended. Commander Henry Sibley, who created the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This sweeping biography immortalizes the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials. Josiah Henson overcame incredible odds to escape from slavery and improve the lives of hundreds of freedmen throughout his long life. He found international fame--including visits to Windsor Castle and the White House--as the real "Uncle Tom" in the novel that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
viii, 236 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
n this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach a decision as to whether the law was actually a success or failure, legally and socially.
91) Escaping slavery
Author
Series
Publisher
Momentum, The Child's World
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Engages readers with incredible stories of people who made daring escapes from slavery. With clever plans and the help of the Underground Railroad, these people escaped enslavement to find freedom.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 365 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico. In South to Freedom historian Alice Baumgartner tells the story of Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised land for enslaved people in North America. She describes how Mexico's...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings ... Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21cm
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
13 audio discs (16 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Augustus Cain faces a past he wants to forget, a present without prospect or fortune, and an uncertain future marred by the loss of his most prized possession: the horse that has been his working companion for years. He is also a man haunted by a terrible skill-the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave fueled by the passion and determination only a mother can feel. She bears the scars-inside and out-of a life...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker's Cay and her husband's duties tending the light to support her three children-and a fourth on the way. Unexpected help arrives when a runaway slave named Andrew washes up on their beach. At first, Emily is intensely wary...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives,...