Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Paperback - Eric Foner

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

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

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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...

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. From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Ame...

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

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,...

Reducere. Imagine leaving everything you've ever known--your friends, family, and home--to travel along roads you've never seen before, getting help from peo...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond ...

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. 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. DescriptionTwelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master f...

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 ...

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. DescriptionTwelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master f...

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. 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. 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. From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War. ...

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. From acclaimed journalist David Talbot comes a groundbreaking narrative account of one of the most tumultuous periods in our history: the Kennedy A...

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

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. 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 ...

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. 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. Christopher Award-winning author Jerdine Nolen imagines a young woman's journey from slavery to freedom in this intimate and powerful novel that wa...

Reducere. This book provides the amazing answers to questions that have been perplexing historians and archaeologists for many years, e.g. Was the Exodus rea...

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.Publisher: Profile Books ...

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. Contributor(s): Editor: Eric FonerEditor: Lisa McGirrEditor: A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpretin...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...