A Tour on the Underground Railroad Along the Ohio River, Paperback - Nancy Stearns Theiss

Reducere. Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana ...

Reducere. Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From th...

Reducere. As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a b...

Reducere. Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels, " sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opp...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016. 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime'( Guardian). '...

Reducere. First published in 1872, "The Underground Railroad" is the fascinating first-hand account of hundreds of slaves and their escape to freedom by Will...

Reducere. William Still's encyclopaedic collection of slave narratives.

It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places...

DescriptionFrom the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an im...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

A unique find along the railroad tracks near a small town in North Dakota inspires four middle school boys to investigate its origin. As two strang...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then keep reading...The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor w...

Reducere. Between 1830 and 1860, thousands of Southern slaves escaped to the North and Canada by way of the "underground railroad." Neither underground nor a...

Polly was used to people coming and going at her house at all times of the night because her family ran an Underground Railroad station. Strangely,...

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's...

Reducere. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winni...

Reducere. Illus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train...

Reducere. Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Written in graphic-novel format.

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Gwendolyn HooksNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 193 x 18Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a dar...

DescriptionAva, Ellie, and Griffin never had a teacher like Miss Snoddy ... not even close They are in awe of her amazing stories about our country...

Reducere. As her biographer Sarah H. Bradford mentions, Harriet Tubman is at par with biggest names like Jeanne D'Arc, Grace Darling, and Florence Nightingal...

Reducere. No one knows where the term ``Underground Railroad ``came from--there were no trains or tracks, only ``conductors`` who helped escaping slaves to f...

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which journalist Lucius Beebe once called the "Mother of Railroads, " was the brainchild of Baltimore city planner...

Reducere. Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians hav...

Reducere. DescriptionThe spirits of Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and other heroes of the Underground Railroad guide readers on a magical path to healing, empo...

Reducere. "Betty Zane" is a historical novel about Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark (1765-1823), a heroine of the Revolutionary War on the American fr...

Reducere. In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slave...

Reducere. Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bul...

Reducere. DescriptionMany of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives an...

Reducere. The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. Th...

Reducere. Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely pop...

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

A daring account of Black Seminole warrior, chief, and diplomat John Horse and the route he forged on the Underground Railroad to gain freedom for ...

Reducere. New Hampshire was once a hotbed of abolitionist activity. But the state had its struggles with slavery, with Portsmouth serving as a slave-trade hu...

Reducere. Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rock...

Reducere. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonqui...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Carole laFavorNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover type: Pa...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Harriet Tubman was known as a "conductor" on the "Underground R...

Reducere. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence,...

Reducere. From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes the highly anticipated and remarkable, little-known story of William Still, kn...

Reducere. The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and ...

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