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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A compilation of 12 first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon spanning eight decades. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship. Also included is an essay by UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson that contextualizes these narratives, as well as a look into the daily life of a slave. Divided into...
163) A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of occupying Union troops. Historian Blight...
165) All that remains
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Janice, Tess, and LuAnn are struggling to turn a Ohio mansion, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. These plans are halted when Janice discovers skeletal human remains, alongside an antique photo of a woman and child, inside the mansion.
166) Family secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three friends purchase a historic hotel in Marietta, Ohio, and learn it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When strange things begin happening at the inn, an old journal written by former slave and Underground Railroad "conductor", Prudence Willard, may offer shed light on the present-day mysteries at the inn.
Author
Series
Freedom seekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[This book explores] the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decade leading up to the Civil War. Through the close reading of diverse sources ranging from government documents to personal accounts, [the author] traces the decisions of slaves to escape, the actions of those who assisted them, the many ways black communities responded to the capture of fugitive slaves, and how local laws either buttressed or undermined enforcement...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
330 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price- remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family's fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary...
172) Greater than gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
LuAnn, Janice, and Tess have finally turned an old Ohio hotel, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. However, a broken elevator marred opening day and local handyman, Thorn, has disappeared. LuAnn discovers a valuable Civil-War era bracelet in Thorn's toolbox, which is a part of a long-ago tale of theft, betrayal, and sacrifice.
174) Plank road summer
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the adventures of two 13-year-olds, Katie McEachron and her friend Florence Mather, who experience an exciting summer in 1852 Wisconsin as the plank road that runs by their homes brings mysterious strangers to their dinner tables and the plight of runaway slaves to their consciences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Revised edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
You are a slave in the 1850's, a slave catcher hoping to get rich, or a part of the Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape to freedom. You choose which side you're on and what you do next.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of John Rankin and the heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad, identifying the pre-Civil War conflicts between abolitionists and slave chasers along the Ohio River banks.
178) Midnight rescue
Author
Series
Freedom seekers volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, having arrived in Minnesota Territory on her father's steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby continues to harbor the runaway slave boy Jordan while worrying about a fugitive who has escaped from the local prison.
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 140L
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young fictional girl named Mary tells what her life is like as a slave living in America in the 1800s, and how she ran away and gained her freedom.