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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Underground Railroad and abolitionism in Utica, NY inspires young Hattie Sheldon to strain against injustice and 19th century social limitations. She sees America's westward expansion luring adventurers toward the vast west where gold has been discovered. Women begin to seize new roles in their push for more rights and better education.The first in her family to earn degrees, she is caught nevertheless between exciting possibilities and safe traditions....
Author
Series
Carole Marsh mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Four kids visit the Underground Railroad museum in Philadelphia and get caught up in a mystery which involves "reading" a quilt.
11) Race for freedom
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013, c1996
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.
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Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia....
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable, little-known story of William Still, known as the Father of the Underground Railroad from award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate. William Still's parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted the family. As a young man, William went to work for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, where he raised money, planned rescues, and helped freedom seekers who had traveled north. And then...
16) The conductors
Author
Series
Murder and Magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as they solve mysteries and murders that white authorities would otherwise ignore. In the heart of Philadelphia's Seventh Ward, everyone knows that when there's a strange death or magical curses causing trouble,...
17) Freedom Run
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Jack and Matt use the Imagination Station to travel back in time again to the pre-Civil War South, where they plan to carry out their promise to help two slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Gods of Gotham volume 2
Language
English
Description
One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Mysteries of the Year
“Amazing...This is a series for the ages, it’s so spectacular.”—Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
1846: In New York City, slave catching isn’t just legal—it’s law enforcement.
Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and...
“Amazing...This is a series for the ages, it’s so spectacular.”—Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
1846: In New York City, slave catching isn’t just legal—it’s law enforcement.
Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and...
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