The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
ISBN-10
0395979153
ISBN-13
9780395979150
Series
The Underground Railroad
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
48
Language
English
Published
1999-09
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Raymond Bial

Description

Portrays the activities of the Underground Railroad in the years prior to the Civil War, and documents the routes, lives, hardships, and accomplishments of the "conductors" and their "passengers," the escaped slaves.

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