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Publisher
Ronsdale Press
Language
English
Description
"A young slave girl from South Carolina decides she will no longer be a slave and she persuades her family to make the journey north to Canada and freedom on the Underground Railroad. They are led by "Moses," the famous Harriet Tubman, and travel on foot, in buggies, on pushcarts and on paddle-wheelers until they reach Canada"--Publisher.
Author
Series
Murder and Magic volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A compelling debut by a new voice in fantasy fiction, The Conductors features the magic and mystery of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series written with the sensibility and historical setting of Octavia Butler's Kindred. Meet Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who now solves crimes in post-Civil War Philadelphia"--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
University Of Notre Dame Press
Language
English
Description
William Still coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadelphia, Still built a reputation as a courageous leader, writer, philanthropist, and guide for fugitive slaves. This monumental work details Still's life story beginning with his parents' escape from bondage in the early nineteenth century and continuing through his youth and adulthood as one of the nation's most important...
11) Drinking gourd
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the Underground Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of murdering a chief member of the Railroad, Benjamin January steps in to unearth the true killer before their covers are blown.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states. May becomes...
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 4
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Language
English
Description
"The fourth self-contained volume of The American Novels series tells the story of Samuel Long, who escapes slavery in Virginia by traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods, where he encounters Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, NathanielHawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, and other transcendentalists and abolitionists. While Long will experience his coming-of-age at Walden Pond, his hosts will receive a lesson on human dignity, culminating...
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
The author of the bestseller and beloved book club favourite "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 new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. One day, Jamie learns that his beloved servant Pan has been captured and...
17) The last runaway
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
As author Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past, she travels along the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the principles, passions, and realities that fuelled this extraordinary freedom movement.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Language
English
Description
"In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It's where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreamsof freedom unfulfilled. Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free. Among them are Dominique,...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery, a gripping tale about the lengths to which people will go in seeking freedom brings to light one of the heroes of the Underground Railroad."-- Provided by publisher.
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