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What Was the Underground Railroad?
Language: en
Pages: 129
Authors: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-26 - Publisher: Penguin

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No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including r
The Underground Railroad
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Colson Whitehead
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-30 - Publisher: Anchor

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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 advent
Frederick Douglass in Context
Language: en
Pages: 753
Authors: Michaël Roy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Eric Foner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-19 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has i
The Underground Railroad in Illinois
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Glennette Tilley Turner
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Newman Educational Publishing Company

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The activities of the Underground Railroad, and the Abolitionist Movement in Illinois are documented by the author in this meticulously researched book.