Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground...
Underground Railroad
- Author:McDonough, Yona ZeldisSummary:
- Author:Smucker, BarbaraSummary:
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks...
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
In this intriguing novel, master quilter Sylvia Compson comes across an heirloom quilt that muddles her heritage. She's always believed her ancestors were active in the Underground Railroad'but perhaps she's been...
- Author:Pignat, CarolineSummary:
"Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She sees how the other slaves are treated -- the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago....
- Author:Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
- Author:Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds!Born enslaved, Harriet Tubman rose up to...
- Author:Rubenstein, Dan, Dyson, NancySummary:
This young reader novel about the Underground Railroad begins when Rebecca, a twelve-year-old slave in South Carolina, hears that Grower Brown plans to sell her father to another grower. Unwilling to accept the idea of slavery any...
- Author:Ayres, KatherineSummary:
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.
- Author:Grissom, KathleenSummary:
«Comment aurais-je pu lui reprocher son incapacité d’aimer la partie de moi que je détestais moi-même?» 1824. À la mort de ses parents adoptifs, James s’évertue à cacher une partie de son histoire aux gens qui l’entourent, dont Caroline...
- Author:Jones, HettieSummary:
The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening towns. For...
- Author:DeRamus, BettySummary:
Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses deeply felt a sorrowful anguish and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite....
- Author:Weatherford, Carole BostonSummary:
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry...