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Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explores Harriet Tubman's life story, including how Tubman became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, rescuing her family members and dozens of others from plantations in the South, and helping them reach safety in the North.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as "his" slave.
In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history-a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about Harriet Tubman has become lost inside a legend woven of racial and gender stereotypes. Now at last, historian...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage-and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation. Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history-the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, who through a combination of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On December 21, 1848, Ellen Craft and her husband, William, slipped out into the cold, dark night and took their first steps towards freedom. They were runaway slaves. Posing as a white man traveling with a slave, Ellen courageously boarded a train bound for Philadelphia. Could they actually make it a thousand miles without being discovered? As each tension-filled day passed and freedom got closer, Ellen and William risked everything - even death...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Betty DeRamus is an award-winning journalist who rummaged through musty records and forgotten memoirs to resurrect this book's unsung heroes. Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses grieved deeply and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite. DeRamus recounts the tales of soulmates who braved bloodhounds,...
Author
Publisher
37 INK/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away."--NoveList.
13) Runaway slaves
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Provides over twenty articles from the era of slavery in which slaves and abolitionists discuss the experience of fleeing slavery, the perils and punishments of trying to escape, efforts to assist runaways, and obstacles to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Pond Dakota Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Separated from his mother when their master sold her, Joseph Godfrey grew up in bondage serving Minnesota's fur-trade elite. Escaping his masters' beatings, Godfrey sought refuge among the Dakota Indians who had befriended him as a child slave. Conscripted to join Dakota warriors in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Godfrey became the first of hundreds of men tried by a military court when the six-week war ended. Commander Henry Sibley, who created the...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title celebrates the life of a little-known African-American hero, Robert Smalls (1839-1915). During and after the American Civil War, Smalls became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself and his family from slavery by commandeering a Confederate transport ship to freedom. After they were safe and free, Smalls and his crew were recognized by President Lincoln. As a Captain in the Union army, he would later convince the...
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