Flight to Freedom on The Underground Railroad
William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coats, 1872), 103.
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Stein, R. Conrad. The story of the underground railroad. Chicago : Childrens Press, c1981.
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.
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Slave songs. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1994.
Nobody knows the trouble I see -- Go in the wilderness -- Praise, member -- Go down, Moses -- Jim along
Josey -- Jump Jim crow -- I am sold and going to Georgia -- Nat Turner -- Harriet Tubman's ballad -- Slavery
chain done broke at last. An illustrated collection of more than two dozen songs sung by African American
slaves.
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The Classic slave narratives. New York : New American Library, c1987.
Presents four classic narratives illustrating the black experience in slavery.
973 Rap
Rappaport, Doreen. Escape from slavery : five journeys to freedom. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins,
c1991.
Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil
War.
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Haskins, James, 1941-. Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad. New York : Scholastic,
c1993.
How the Underground Railroad got its name -- The tracks and stations -- Harriet Tubman, the woman
called Moses -- John Brown, fugitive slave -- End of the line. Discusses the Underground Railroad, the
secret, loosely-organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape North to
freedom.
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Kallen, Stuart A., 1955-. Life on the Underground Railroad. San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c2000.
Describes what it was like to be involved in the Underground Railroad, discussing life on the run, the lives
of the trackers, conductors, and stationmasters, and the building of new lives in Canada.
92 Tub
Ferris, Jeri. Go free or die : a story about Harriet Tubman. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, c1988.
A biography of the African-American woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to
seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad.
92 Tub
McClard, Megan. Harriet Tubman : slavery and the underground railroad. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver
Burdett Press, c1991.
A biography of the courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to become a heroic figure in the
Underground Railroad.
92 Tub
Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-. The story of Harriet Tubman : freedom train. New York : Scholastic, c1954.
Harriet Tubman, known as the Moses of her people, escapes slavery, then risks her life to bring other
slaves to freedom up the Underground Railroad.
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Underground railroad.
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AV FIC QUE The Quest for freedom : the Harriet Tubman story. Standard format. Richardson, TX : Grace Products,
c2005.
Summer Shelby, David King, Reg Grant, Chris Messersmith, Shirley Abrams. A discouraged young man
regains the ability to dream of a better life after he becomes trapped in the past on a southern plantation
with Harriet Tubman, a slave who risked her own life to lead others to freedom along the Underground
Railroad.
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Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. New York : Dell Pub., 1995, c1993.
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave
offers to teach her how to read.
Fic And
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Forge. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge,
worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning
of his friendship with Isabel.
Fic Ayr
Ayres, Katherine. North by night : a story of the Underground Railroad. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998.
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Fic Col
Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. Jump ship to freedom. New York : Delacorte Press, c1981.
In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his
dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in
the Revolution.
FIC CUR
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2007.
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves
fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher
who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). Copper sun. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
c2006.
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina
plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to
slaves.
Fic Gai
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. New York, : Dial Press, 1971.
A 110-year-old African American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of
slavery to the African American militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960's.
Fic Ham
Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. The house of Dies Drear. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers ;, 1984, c1968.
An African-American family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the
Underground Railroad.
Fic Han
Hansen, Joyce. Which way freedom? New York : Walker, c1986.
Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved
in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Fic Mel
Meltzer, Milton, 1915-. Underground man. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1990.
A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days.
Fic Nel
Hegamin, Tonya. Pemba's song : a ghost story. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a
history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a girl
who was once a slave in her house.
Fic WIS
Wisler, G. Clifton. Caleb's choice. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c1996.
While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist
fugitive slaves in their run for freedom.
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The House of Dies Drear. Newark, NJ : Wonderworks, c1984.
Mov Rac
Race to freedom : the story of the underground railroad.
Video. 90 minutes.
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