William Still 's encyclopaedic collection of slave narratives.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
Including real stories from the "Railroad," What Was the Underground Railroad? will capture young readers' hearts: there are close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and unending sacrifices slaves made for freedom.
The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage--and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.
Black, George W. Bookel, John. Bull, Jason. Clarke. Coulter, Dr. Dickerman, Benonah. Ferguson, Wm. Freeland, Jeremiah. Gardner, Ozem. Gardner, Wilson. Graham, David. Hambleton, Isaac H. Hambleton, Thomas. Hoffman, John. Jenkins, David.
Nonfiction topics in graphic novel format!
"Siblings Mattie and Jeb escape slavery via the Underground Railroad, meeting helpful conductors and dodging slave catchers as they travel from Maryland to Massachusetts"--
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Describes the underground railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom.