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.
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER , THE LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON , VA . AS FULLY AND VOLUNTARILY MADE TO THOMAS B. GRAY , To the prison where he was confined , and acknowledged by him to be when read bebee the Court of ...
Not every escaped slave was blessed with the eloquence of Frederick Douglass, who used his new-found freedom to become the supreme voice of the abolitionist movement. But every one of...
The ABC's of the Underground Railroad: The Secret Code Revealed
Describes the underground railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom.
A "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821–1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War.
A pioneer of the frontier, Samuel Patterson was born in Acworth, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and arrived in the West at age four with his parents. In 1825, he settled in a log cabin at 6525 Africa Road on Alum Creek in East ...
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Meet the individuals who may have inspired characters in the novels Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved. And experience the heart-pounding fear of a man who mailed himself north.
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.